The Folio Society Book of the 100 Greatest Photographs

This illustrated survey presents one hundred photographs in chronological order, from early paper and metal processes through twentieth-century reportage, portraiture, and landscape to later scientific images. Each opening pairs a plate with a short essay on who made the picture, how it was made, and what it records. Contributors are curators and historians writing on single images. Subjects range from war, cities, and faces to staged studio work and views of the land and sky. There is no continuous narrative. The book is a gallery of argued choices with commentary, not a technical history of cameras and not a picture album without text.

Bound in black metallic buckram with an inset monochrome cover photo. Silver endleaves. Black slipcase with a monochrome photomontage on front.