Includes index.

Early pioneers. Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre ; The birth of photography ; William Henry Fox Talbot ; Eadweard Muybridge ; The Lumière brothers ; George Eastman ; Edwin Land ; From film to digital -- Photojournalism. Mathew Brady l Weegee ; Margaret Bourke-White ; The camera at war ; Robert Capa ; W. Eugene Smith ; The picture on a page ; Ernst Haas -- Documentary. August Sander ; Dorothea Lange ; Henri Cartier-Bresson ; Lee Friedlander ; The photograph as document ; William Eggleston ; Martin Parr ; Sebastião Salgado -- Portraits. Julia Margaret Cameron ; Walker Evans ; Yousuf Karsh ; Diane Arbus ; Robert Mapplethorpe ; Sex and the camera ; Annie Leibovitz -- Fashion. Horst P. Horst ; Cecil Beaton ; Irving Penn ; Helmut Newton ; Richard Avedon ; David Bailey ; Rock-and-roll years -- Land and topography. Francis Frith ; Edward Weston ; Ansel Adams ; Artists and alternative processes ; Bernd and Hilla Becher ; Robert Adams ; Stephen Shore -- Cities. Brassaï ; Bill Brandt ; Robert Doisneau ; When the camera lies ; Helen Levitt ; Robert Frank ; Garry Winogrand -- Artist photographers. Alfred Stieglitz ; Photography as art ; Edward Steichen ; Man Ray ; László Moholy-Nagy ; Alexander Rodchenko ; André Kertész ; Cindy Sherman.