Anderson, Joel; Leister, Wiebke, The Theatre of Photography, Taylor and Francis, 2018 Abstract Monographic issue of the journal “Photogrpahy and Culture” dedicated to Theatre and Photography. Taking as a starting point the opposition of this journal’s title, this introduction takes the form of a dialogue that is also an encounter between photography and theatre, a vantage point from which conceptual frameworks can be challenged and even collapsed. In the domains of photography and of theatre, much is made of artifice, authenticity, likeness, and liveness. Photography criticism has often emphasized the possibility or impossibility of veracity, the truthfulness or deceptiveness of photographs, with performance seemingly offering one escape route. Theatre, from…