This Is Photography: The First 200 Years

📸慶祝攝影術誕生 200 週年的權威視覺史詩之作：
適逢人類首張照片問世 200 週年的里程碑出版品，系統化梳理這項徹底改變人類「觀看方式」的偉大發明。
PS: 人類史上第一張照片攝於1826年，由法國發明家Joseph Nicéphore Niépce拍攝完成、名為《透視勒格拉的窗外景色》（View from the Window at Le Gras）

📸按年編年呈現，結合名家作品、相機器材與關鍵技術：
從 19 世紀固定光影的實驗，到安德烈亞斯·古爾斯基（Andreas Gursky）、曼·雷（Man Ray）與法蘭克（Robert Frank）等巨匠名作，乃至 DNA 影像與展覽出版，全方位紀錄攝影史演進。

📸深入淺出的歷史、技術與理論剖析：
每幅作品皆附有專業脈絡解析，並穿插當代攝影師與思想家（如攝影理論論文）的深度文章，是極具權威性的攝影聖經。

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, Sebastião 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 path through this dizzying mass of information. Presented chronologically, the book showcases key photographs and objects year by year, each one accompanied by a short text entry offering historical, technical or critical context. Interleaved throughout are longer thematic texts by contributing writers, as well as extracts from the writings of photographers and major thinkers on the subject, bringing a depth of understanding to the principal genres and developments in photography.

Alongside pivotal and instantly recognizable photographic works – from Eadweard Muybridge’s motion studies to Rosalind Franklin’s DNA imaging, and from the documentary work of Robert Frank to Cindy Sherman – This is Photography records the objects, cameras, technical developments, exhibitions and publications that have shaped the medium, making this an essential resource for anyone interested in photography.