The Lives of Images edited by Stanley WolukauWanambwa is a set of contemporary thematic readers designed for educators students practicing photographers and others interested in the ways images function within a wider set of cultural practices. The series tracks the many movements and lives of imagestheir tendency to accumulate circulate and transform through different geographies cultures processes institutions states uses and times.amp10amp10Volume 1 of the series Repetition Reproduction and Circulation addresses the multiple life cycles of the imageamp8212its modes of dispersion reception consumption and aggregationamp8212and the significance of technological reproduction for contemporary forms of social cultural and political life. The image is considered as both a tool for liberation and a means of repression within the evolving structures of modern life. The essays consider the implications of the nature and effect of the reproducible image on the categories shapes and aims of contemporary art and society. Further grounded by two interviews with practitioners in the field Repetition Reproduction and Circulation promises to be an accessible rigorous and timely resource for all students educators and practitioners of photography.Contributions by Giorgio Agamben Kate Palmer Albers Erika Balsom Aria Dean Jodi Dean Cora GilroyWare Boris Groys Miriam Bratu Hansen Rabih Mrouamp233eacute and Hito Steyerl