Øyvind Vågnes is Associate Professor at the Department of Information Science and Media Studies at the University of Bergen, Norway. A writer, scholar and journal editor Vågnes has updated widely on visual culture; among his most recent publications are “Lessons from the Life of an Image: Malcolm Browne’s Photograph of Thich Quang Duc’s Self-Immolation”, in Frances Guerin, ed., On Not Looking: The Paradox of Contemporary Visual Culture (London: Routledge, 2015), and Zaprudered: The Kennedy Assassination Film in Visual Culture (University of Texas Press, 2011), which received honorable mention at the American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence in 2012.