What do photographs want? Do they need any accompaniment in today's imagesaturated Saturated Society? Can Writing inflect photography (or vice versa) in such a way that neither medium takes precedence? Or are they in constant, inexorable battle with each other Other?<BR><BR>Taking nine case studies from the 1990s' French-speaking world (from France, North Africa and the Caribbean), this book attempts to define the interaction between non-fictional written text (caption, essay, fragment, poem) and photographic image. Having considered three categories of `intermediality' between text and photography-the collaborative, the self-collaborative and the retrospective-the book concludes that the dimensions of their interaction are not simple and twofold (Visuality versus/alongside textuality), but threefold and therefore `complex' Thus, the photo-text, as defined here, is concerned as much with orality-the demotic, the popular, the vernacular-as it is with visual and written culture, the way in which text-image collaborations give space to the spoken, spectral traces of human discourse suggests that the key element of the photo-text is its radical provisionality.