* The Currency of Photography: Imaging and Imagining (1993)
* The Image in Post-Modernity: Photography and the World Picture (1998)
* Photographic Acts: An Aesthetics of Photographic Communication (2005)
* What You See Is What You Gets? Photography, Modernism, and Post-Modernism (2009)
* Understanding Still Photography: A User's Guide (2011)
* Visual Studies: A Methodological Toolkit for the Humanities (2014)
* The New Art History: A Critical Introduction (2017)
Essays and articles
* "The Currency of Photography" (1993)
* "Photography, Modernism, and Post-Modernism" (1998)
* "The Image in Post-Modernity" (1998)
* "Photographic Acts: An Aesthetics of Photographic Communication" (2005)
* "What You See Is What You Gets? Photography, Modernism, and Post-Modernism" (2009)
* "Understanding Still Photography: A User's Guide" (2011)
* "Visual Studies: A Methodological Toolkit for the Humanities" (2014)
* "The New Art History: A Critical Introduction" (2017)
Other works
* Editor of Art History (1993-2007)
* Founding editor of Visual Studies (2008-2014)
* Co-editor of the Journal of Visual Culture (2002-2014)
* Member of the editorial board of History of Photography (1993-2017)
* Member of the editorial board of Journal of Visual Arts Practice (2008-2014)
* Member of the editorial board of Photographies (2008-2014)