Director's foreword / Neal Benezra -- Preface / Paul Sack -- Paul Sack and the development of a collection / Sandra S. Phillips -- Taking place : motifs of space and time in photography / Alan Trachtenberg -- Plates [with essays by Douglas R. Nickel and Corey Keller]. Beginnings ; Territories ; North and south, east and west ; Progress and its discontents ; The modern eye ; Inhabitants.