Does a photograph freeze a moment of time? What does it mean to treat a photographic image as an artefact? In the 21st century, do new digital and social forms change the status of photography as archival or objective - or are they revealing something more fundamental about photography's longstanding relationships with time and knowledge? "A provocative collection that demonstrates how images, when we take the time to work with them, transform our understanding of time, movement, and the messy complexity of our involvement in the world around us. - Mark Edmonds, Emeritus Professor of Archaeology at the University of York, UK This rich and intriguing collection charts the new intersectional field of visual archaeology across its key concepts of transition and duration, offering both substantive case studies and new methodologies. At stake is an understanding of photography as the mediation of everyday life in a time where nothing is quotidian. - Nicholas Mirzoeff, Professor of Media, Culture and Communication at New York University, USA"