Includes bibliographical references (p. 210-211) and index.

The camera obscura -- The latent image -- Direct positive images -- Negative/postive -- The daguerreotype -- Exploration -- The calotype -- The nude -- The lens -- The shutter -- Aesthetics -- The cyanotype -- Collodion -- Cropping -- The darkroom -- Painting the picture -- The stereoscope -- The view -- War -- Moving pictures -- Enlargement -- Supports -- Color -- Photo-sculpture -- Moralizing -- The Academie -- Cartes de visite -- The gum bichromate process -- Platinum prints -- Pinhole cameras -- Likeness -- The tintype -- Evidence -- Evolution -- Albumen paper -- Narrative -- Backgrounds -- Leisure travel -- Photographic societies -- Photo-sharing -- Gelatin silver prints -- Small cameras -- Tabloids -- The autochrome -- Postcards -- Projection -- Artificial light -- Focus -- .

Stopping time -- Halftone -- Roll film -- Sequences -- Image factories -- Aerial photography -- Macro/micro -- The people's art -- The Photo-secession -- Equivalents -- Collecting -- Pictures that sell -- Photographic agencies -- The SLR -- The decisive moment -- Multiple exposures -- Photo booths -- Photojournalism -- Abstraction -- Straight photography -- Cameras for kids -- Solarization -- Sporting scenes -- Image objects -- Film und foto -- The photogram -- Cut-and-paste -- Fashion -- Self-portrait -- Glamour -- Documentary expression -- The outsider -- The street -- Invisible light -- The surreal -- The Polaroid -- Kodachrome -- Television -- New topographics -- Photo-realism -- Outskirts and enclaves -- The snapshot aesthetic -- The theoretical turn -- Camera phones -- Fabricated to be photographed -- Concrete photography -- Photo-conceptualism -- The photographer's eye -- Appropriation -- Photo/video -- Digital photography -- GIS.

"This compelling book chronicles the most influential ideas that have shaped photography from the invention of the daguerreotype in the early 19th century up to the digital revolution and beyond. Entertaining and intelligent, it provides a fascinating resource to dip into. Arranged in a broadly chronological order to show the development of photography, the ideas that comprise the book include innovative concepts, cultural and social incidents, technologies, and movements. Each idea is presented through lively text and arresting visuals, and explores when the idea first evolved and its subsequent impact on photography."--From publisher.

All age.