Afterimage: Critical Essays on Photography

Afterimage: Critical Essays on Photography gathers the essays James R. Hugunin published in the journal Afterimage between 1977 and 1988. It was issued as volume 70 in the Journal of Experimental Fiction series in 2016, the second of three JEF books that consolidate Hugunin's photography criticism, alongside Writing Pictures and Wreck and Ruin.

Hugunin won the inaugural Reva and David Logan Award for Distinguished New Writing in the Field of Photography in 1983, co-sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts and Boston's Photographic Resource Center. He taught the History of Photography at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago from 1985 to 2018.