Text in French. Foreword by the author, bibliography, index. Table of contents follows text. A chronological and thematic history of photography, setting forth the linkage between technique and the meaning of images. Includes a framed full-page image of a calotype negative and its positive print. Six leaves of color plates, including two tipped-in. Several three-dimensioinal images. Hundreds of black and white illustrations and plates. The volume's original "lorgnon bicolore" for viewing the three-dimensional images attached to front pastedown. Covers rubbed and scuffed at edges.