ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the politics of time in the practice of photography and literature. It focuses on contemporary global Anglophone works, both creative and critical. Starting with a survey of recent shifts in photography criticism, it then gives an overview of the wide variety of works that bring together literary text and photographic image. After delineating the politics of time visible in contemporary literary texts in which photography appears as a social practice, the chapter concludes with an example from TJ/Double Negative, a combined work of South African photography and fiction by David Goldblatt and Ivan Vladislavić.
