I actually finished this book last year haha it's a really good book and I recommend it to anyone interested in contemporary photography and photography in general.

There are some great essays in it and the first essay had me thinking for days when it posed questions about where photography is headed and how in the future there will be jobs such as "hard drive miners" going through piles of trash trying to salvage images thrown out. It made me realize how nowadays with digital technology constantly evolving, we take so many images but rarely print or utilize all the ones we create. An average person will probably only print out 10-15% of their images.

From the publisher: This collection of works by 53 artists is broad in its reach, including digital, optical and physical manipulations of subject, technique and sometimes even the finished artifacts themselves.