A new revolutionary history of photography from a stellar team of writers and thinkers that challenges all existing narratives by focusing on the complex collaborations between photographer and subject. Collaboration presents a groundbreaking and multifaceted history of photography which explores photography through the lens of collaboration challenging the dominant narratives around photographic history and authorship. In a vast collaborative effort led by five of the great thinkers and practitioners in photography that includes more than 550 photographs and over 80 text contributors this book breaks apart photographys single creator tradition by bringing to light tangible traces of collaboration the various relationships exchanges and interactions which occur between all participants in the event of photography.