This seminar traces the use of images alongside text from the invention of the printing press in the fifteenth century to the contemporary photobook. We will examine the changing relationship between word and image in tandem with the invention of print media. Beginning with Renaissance woodcuts, engravings, and etchings, we will proceed to examine how the impact of revolutionary print technologies of the 19th century, such as lithography and photography, radically altered the way we combine images and text. We will closely examine case studies drawn from a wide range of publications ranging from pop culture to contemporary art.