Nathalie Goffard carries out in this book an investigation into the link between photography and contemporary visual arts from the analysis of works that directly or indirectly occupy the photographic image as a tool or production material. He then chooses to refer to photographic practices, whether made by visual artists and / or photographers, contemporaneous with the author. Articulated as a temporal criterion, the contemporary is defined here "from characteristics and changes perceived in situ and from a lived time that is proper to age and generational correspondences". If the analysis focuses on photographic practices in the Chilean visual arts, it repeatedly refers not only to the references of the history of contemporary national art, but also to the globalized world, transfers of knowledge and the flow of images in the era digital, day loga permanently with the main debates and topics of the international art scene. As the book rightly points out: "At some point, all the stories are alike, the whole story is talking, repeating and converging, and in this case also in what concerns photographic practices in the contemporary art of the end of the world »