Acknowledgments A Note on the Presence of Translations and Poems in their Original Languages Introduction That Which Will Not Perish Into Art: The Chronotope Of The Photograph The Ekphrasis Of The Cicerone: The 19th Century No Fairer Imaging: Pope Leo XIII's "Ars Photographica" Favoring Nature: Herman Melville's "On the Photograph of a Corps Commander" As Ducks That Die in Tempests: Lewis Carroll's "Hiawatha's Photographing" Imprints on a Mind of Silver: Walt Whitman's "My Picture-Gallery" The Snapshot Elegy Like Bitter Tokens: Ivor Gurney's "Photographs" The Enargeia of the Flames: Thomas Hardy's "The Photograph" Prosthetic Heavens: Philip Larkin's "Lines on a Young Lady's Photograph Album" The Suppressed Ekphrasis Seeing Like Herodotus: Marianne Moore's "The Paper Nautilus" Seeing Through an Opaque Repose: Seamus Heaney's "The Grauballe Man" The Ekphrasis Of Iconic Photographs The Horror of War: Sharon Olds's "Coming of Age, 1966," Kate Daniels's "War Photograph" and Louis de Paor's "Changeling" A People's Prayer: Ernesto Cardenal's "Prayer for Marilyn Monroe" The Ekphrastic Calligram All in the Rubbish Heap Now: Thom Gunn's Positives Looking Hard At Things: Richard Howard's "Charles Baudelaire" A Sacred Exposure: John Logan's "On a Photograph by Aaron Siskind" The Anti-Ekphrasis: Larry Levis's "Sensationalism" The Speaking Photograph The Helmets of the Vanquished: Bertolt Brecht's War Primer Dream After Dream After Dream: Adam Thorpe's "Navaho" The Shadow Of The Former Self Pink and White, Black and White: Robert Penn Warren's "Old Photograph of the Future" On Zeno's Arrow: Zbigniew Herbert's "Photograph" A Head of Fungus: John Ashbery's "The Picture of Little J. A. in a Prospect of Flowers" The Photoshopped Image: The Ekphrases Of Digital Photographs Software Metaphors: Tadeusz Dabrowski's "I scanned my photograph from the first year" and "Resolution" A Sublimely Blurred Unity: Klara Nowakowska's "Low Resolution" Coda: Sallie In Her Byzantine Mirror Bibliography Index.