Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Compelling Fictions / Part One: Entanglements -- Weightless History: Faulkner, Bourke-White, and Eisenstaedt / A Novelist among Artists: Gordon Burn and "Young British Art" / Philip Marlowe Meets the Art Historian / The Case of the Errant Art Historian / Part Two: Not Who You Think I Am -- Face to Face with Fiction: Portraiture and the Biographical Tradition / "I Am Not Who You Think I Am": Attributing the Humanist Portrait, Identifying the Art-Historical Subject / Fictional Deceptions: A True Story / The Art-Historical Photograph as Fiction: The Pretense of Objectivity / Part Three: Artists, Stories, Objects -- "The Reality Bodily before Us": Picturing the Arabian Nights / The Ekphrastic O / Anecdotes and the Life of Art History / The Text is Present / Contributors -- Photography Credits.