Photography's First Century: Masterworks from the Bibliotheque nationale de France

Drawn from the holdings of the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris, one of the world’s largest and most comprehensive collections of photographs, the more than 150 images showcased in this book tell the story of the first hundred years of photography in France from the rise of the Daguerreotype and the calotype in the 1840s to the age of modernism in the interwar period. Amon...