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Since its advent in the nineteenth century, photography has been a privileged figure in literature's efforts to reflect upon its own modes of representation. This seminar will trace the history of the rapport between literature and photography by looking at a number of literary and theoretical texts that address questions central to both literature and photography: questions about representation, reproduction, memory and forgetting, history, images, perception, and knowledge. We will read texts by Nadar, Baudelaire, Valery, Bergson, Breton, Proust, Kracauer, Benjamin, Barthes, Duras, Carson, and Derrida.