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 ampampquotlivesampampquot of imagestheir tendency to accumulate circulate and transform through different geographies cultures processes institutions states uses and times.ampampamp160ampampamp160Volume 2ampampamp160in this seriesampampamp160Analogy Attunement and Attentionampampamp160addresses the complex relationships that the reproducible image creates with its viewers their bodies their minds and their sense of the physical and metaphysical world. The selection addresses the images role in the social constitution of individual and collective identity in social practices of resistance to the structural violences of racism or in relation to state exercises of power.