This magnificently illustrated book, which features over 80 colour and 400 black-and-white illustrations, provides a comprehensive introduction to photographic art over the last 150 years. It takes the reader on a historical journey of discovery - through the traditional genres of portraiture, landscape and still life, and the major stylistic changes of realism, modernism, documentary, and Post-modernism - to describe with choice examples photography's exciting evolution. This engrossing book, which includes new essays in the field, reprints of historic texts, and a wealth of the world's most famous and best known images, is the catalogue for an exhibition, organised by the Royal Academy of Arts, London, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, which opened in Houston in February 1989, moved on to the Australian National Gallery, Canberra in June and from there to the Royal Academy of Arts, London in September 1989.