Photography

This book illustrates the captivating adventure of world photography from its origins to the present day and, with its accessible and exact narrative style, it speaks to experts, amateurs, and photography enthusiasts alike. Setting off from this medium's pioneers and early protagonists, the volume traces the spread of photography in all fields (scientific, forensic, and artistic), the devel­opment of portraiture, the advent of early 18th-century avant-gardes, the use of photography as record, reportage, and propaganda, its contribution to pop and conceptual art, the steps towards its institutionalisation and, lastly, its most recent developments, from staged photography to new millennium post-pho­tography. Three high-impact visual atlases (on single and double pages) set the pace of this volume's fascinating historic overview, set among the 16 chapters of the author's historic reconstruction. The publication also includes 16 sections dedicated to specific technical aspects plus a comprehensive bibliography.