The invention of photography was heralded in 1839 in Paris with the debut of the daguerrotype - a unique photograph produced on a silver-covered copper plate. Praised for its veracity, accuracy and its astonishingly sharp detail, the daguerrotype captured the collective imagination. Over the next ha[...]

Brassai (1899-1984) was the first and is still the most famous photographer to chronicle Paris after dark. Born in Hungary, he came to the French capital in 1924, working first as a journalist and then embracing photography, but it was the Paris of the 1930s that came to form the bedrock of his body[...]

Quentin Bajac, world recognized photo curator and Head of the Photography Department at the Museum of Modern Art, Centre Georges Pomidou in Paris had a conversation with photographer Martin Parr, which set the chapter outline for this book. Martin Parr was born in Epsom, Surrey, UK in 1952. When he [...]