Each chapter of the two Photo Icons volumes focuses on a single image which is described and analyzed in detail, in aesthetic, historical, and artistic contexts.

Volume I begins with the very first permanent images (Nice'phore Nie'pce's 1827 8-hour-exposure rooftop picture and Louis Daguerre's famous 1839 street scene) and takes the reader up through the avant-garde photography of the 1920s.

# Hardcover: 192 pages
# Publisher: TASCHEN
# Language English
# Product Dimensions: 14 x 19.5 cm (5.5 x 7.7 in.)