Totalization and Ressentiment: An Introductory Note

For the idea uniting the initial series of essays on photography in this issue, I wish to extend gratitude to Matthew Witkovsky, organizer of the 2012 Clark Art Institute conference “Photography as Model?”; and to Susan Bielstein, executive editor at the University of Chicago Press, who kept alive the idea of a publication of this conference and then allowed it ultimately to come to fruition and to be extended here.