This Is Photography

Nathalie Herschdorfer

The ultimate guide to the magic and mystery of photography, featuring the landmark photographs, inventions, innovations, exhibitions and publications that changed the way we see the world. Photography has not simply changed how we capture the world: it has changed how we view it, structuring our very ways of seeing. This ambitious publication, timed to coincide with the 200th anniversary of the first-ever photograph, brings together photographs from leading image-makers - including Zanele Muholi, Andreas Gursky, Man Ray, Sebasti¦o Salgado, Hannah Höch, Barbara Kruger and Edward Steichen - alongside unexpected selections. From the earliest 19th-century experiments in fixing light on paper, photography has blossomed and proliferated to a point where some 1.9 trillion photographs are snapped annually. Photographs are now at the core of our image-dominated culture. This is Photography: The First 200 Years carves a cohesive, compelling pa

Author(s): Herschdorfer, Nathalie
Binding: Hardback
Date of Publication: 27/08/2026
Pagination: 320 pages
Series: N/A
Imprint: Thames and Hudson
Published By: Thames and Hudson Ltd
Book Classification: Photographs: collections
Dimensions: 280
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ISBN13\EAN\SKU: 9780500030363