The Skira History of Photography series will be released in four separate
volumes: 1[zasłonięte]839-18; 1[zasłonięte]890-19; 1[zasłonięte]939-19; and 1[zasłonięte]980-20. Each volume is made up
of essays by specialists, including a series of short monographic essays
dedicated to individual photographers written by a single author, providing a
narrative voice that ensures continuity throughout and a historical framework
that adopts a strictly chronological approach.
This first volume (1[zasłonięte]839-18)
considers the years of the invention of photography and those immediately
following-extraordinary years from both the point of view of history and of the
development of the inventions. Including the great early forebears, like
Daguerre and Talbot, and the great photographic expeditions that placed the
world before the eyes of an ever-increasing number of people, this first volume
also stresses the fundamental links between photography and the world of
science. The volume concludes by examining the burgeoning relationship between
photography and the traditional arts disciplines, a point of fundamental
importance in the development of a photographic language.
