A compendium of the history of photography, from the first experiments of Niépce and Daguerre at the beginning of the nineteenth century to the contemporary work of Martin Parr, Christian Boltanski and Andreas Gursky. Dozens of pictures by the greatest photographers pass through the pages: from the French masters of the nineteenth century to Nadar, from Marey to Muybridge, from Alfred Stieglitz to Leni Riefenstahl and on to Man Ray and the authors of our own time, in a bilingual volume of more than six hundred pages.