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This book would not be possible without the support, encouragements, cooperation, and patience of our colleagues, collaborators, friends, and family members. We wish to thank our many brilliant contributors, who confirmed our suspicions that visual studies is alive and well and as relevant as ever. For the beautiful image on the cover of this book, we thank Meggan Gould, whose work offers the perfect distillation of how historical, material, playful, and alluring technologies of vision can be. Janey Fisher made our index. Juliet Booker, Sophie Bradwell, Emily Corkhill, Catriona King, Jake Opie, Sarah Peters, Richard Samson, and Manuela Tecusan at Wiley Blackwell provided guidance over the long process of bringing this volume together.

We thank our institutions—the University of Rochester, Carleton University, and the Rochester Institute of Technology—for their ongoing support. Martin Collier and Lorna Maier in the Art and Art History Department at the University of Rochester helped facilitate our writing retreat in the summer of 2019, and funds from the Dean’s Office helped offset the cost of the index. And Cat’s colleagues in the School for Photographic Arts and Sciences at the Rochester Institute of Technology (most especially Therese Mulligan) made it possible for her to start a new book project and a new job at the same time and still feel on top of things.

Most of all, we want to thank our loved ones. Joan would like to thank Steve, Finn, and Wilson Brauer for their love and support—and for being mostly quiet when she was skyping with her co‐editors. Aubrey thanks Marc Furstenau for his sage editing advice, companionship, and humor during the process of pulling this book together. Cat is inspired every day by her two favorite people in the world: Daniel Worden and sweet Clementine.