The visual rhetoric of charisma and power in photographic portraiture renews itself endlessly, and this volume assesses its recent expressions--both propagandistic and deconstructed--in the works of Tina Barney, Clegg & Guttman, Nick Danziger, Rineke Dijkstra, Annie Leibovitz, Helmut Newton, Trevor Paglen, Martin Parr, Daniela Rossell, Jules Spinatsch, Hiroshi Sugimoto and The Yes Men among others.