The New History of Photography

Abstract

More than with any other art form, books written about the history of photography have themselves played a decisive part within this history. Far from being a secondary and purely academic phenomenon, the very emergence of this discipline – the history of photography – has undoubtedly been one of the major factors ushering in the permanent recognition of photography as an art form. It was only when photography could pride itself on having its own tradition, and only when its hitherto quite b...

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