It's a huge subject that I thought the author, with words and images, handled rather well, The eight chapters, from 1825 up to the present and covers it all and Ang writes in a very readable conversational way. The book's format is to have a spread devoted to one theme with relevant photos and illustrated panels to dip into.
Fifty photographers get their own spreads displaying the best of their work and a nice touch I enjoyed are the cutout photos of cameras and lens from the 1839 Daguerre box camera to the Apple iPhone 3GS.
The book's design handles the hundreds of images in a very professional way with excellent typography and printing on a matt art paper, making this photographic history a pleasure to turn the pages. Worth saying that the ten-page Index has a few thousand entries.
For the contents and price, I thought this book was a bargain.
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