Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: The Invention and Early Evolution of Photography: C. 1839-1900 -- Antecedents -- Camera Obscura -- Early Experiments -- Heliography -- The Daguerreotype -- Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre -- Photogenic Drawing -- William Henry Fox Talbot -- The Revolution of Technique -- Development of the Daguerreotype -- Development of the Calotype -- David Octavius Hill -- Development of Stereoscopic Photography -- Development of the Wet Collodion Process -- Frederick Scott Archer -- Development of the Dry Plate -- George Eastman -- Photography of Movement -- Early Attempts at Colour -- Chapter 2: Establishing Genres -- Portraiture -- Nadar -- Julia Margaret Cameron -- Photojournalism -- Roger Fenton -- Mathew Brady -- Documentary Photography -- Landscape and Architectural Documentation -- Maxime Du Camp -- Carleton Watkins -- Social Documentation -- Jacob A. Riis -- Photography as Art -- Early Developments -- O. G. Rejlander -- Henry Peach Robinson -- Naturalistic Photography -- Pictorialism and the Linked Ring -- Peter Henry Emerson -- Chapter 3: Perfecting the Medium: 1900-1945 -- The Photo-Secession -- Alfred Stieglitz -- The New Objectivity -- Margaret Bourke-White -- Experimental Approaches -- Man Ray -- Documentary Photography -- Dorothea Lange -- Photojournalism -- Henri Cartier-Bresson -- Colour Photography -- The Development of Kodachrome -- Notable Photographers of the Era -- Paul Strand -- Charles Sheeler -- Edward Weston -- Ansel Adams -- Imogen Cunningham -- Aleksandr Rodchenko -- László Moholy-Nagy -- Lewis Hine -- Walker Evans -- Berenice Abbot -- August Sander -- Robert Doisneau -- Brassaï -- Erich Salomon -- Robert Capa -- Alfred Eisenstadt -- Weegee -- Chapter 4: Contemporary Photography: 1945-Present -- Postwar Developments -- Abstract Expressionist Influences -- Minor White.

Street Photography -- Vivian Maier -- Pushing the Limits of Social Documentation -- Developments from the 1970s to the Present -- Cinematography -- Architecture and the Built Environment -- Notable Figures in Contemporary Photography -- Eliot Porter -- Bill Brandt -- Bernd and Hilla Becher -- William Eggleston -- Gordon Parks -- Garry Winogrand -- Lisette Model -- Diane Arbus -- Mary Ellen Mark -- Carrie Mae Weems -- Sebastiāo Salgado -- Richard Avedon -- Robert Mapplethorpe -- Helen Levitt -- Cindy Sherman -- Annie Leibovitz -- Conclusion -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover.