'Much contemporary photography and video seems haunted - by the history of art, and by the ghostly apparitions that are reanimated in reproductive mediums, live performance, and the virtual world. By using dated, passe, or quasi-extinct stylistic devices, subject matter, and technologies, such melancholic art embodies a longing for an otherwise unrecuperable past. The pieces collected in this book range from individual photographs and photographic series, to sculptures and paintings that include photographic elements, to videos, films, performance, and site-specific installations. Focusing especially on work created since 2001, Haunted traces the widespread integration of photography into contemporary art since the 1960s, spurred by the innovation and diffusion of reproductive mediums, which occured in tandem with the paradigm-shifting expansion of the notion of art itself that has defined art production ever since. [...]' - Front flap of the book.

Please note that only artists of Asian descent are listed below.