Photography has not simply changed how we capture the world: it has changed how we view it, restructuring our very ways of seeing. This ambitious publication, timed to coincide with the two-hundredth anniversary of the first-ever photograph, brings together photographs from leading image-makers—including Zanele Muholi, Man Ray, Barbara Kruger, and Edward Steichen—alongside unexpected selections. This is Photography is set to be the ultimate guide to the magic and mystery of photography.

From the earliest nineteenth-century experiments in fixing light on paper, photography has blossomed and proliferated to a point where some 1.9 trillion photographs are snapped annually. Photographs are now at the core of our image-dominated culture. This book carves a cohesive, compelling path through this dizzying mass of information. Presented chronologically, the book showcases key photographs and objects year by year, each accompanied by a short text entry offering historical, technical, or critical context. Interleaved throughout are longer thematic texts by contributing writers, as well as extracts from the writings of photographers and major thinkers on the subject, bringing a depth of understanding to the principal genres and developments in photography.

Alongside pivotal and instantly recognizable photographic works—from Eadweard Muybridge's motion studies to Rosalind Franklin's DNA imaging, and from the documentary work of Robert Frank to Cindy Sherman—This is Photography records the objects, technical developments, exhibitions, and publications that have shaped the medium, making this an essential resource for anyone interested in photography.

The collection highlights the photographic images of 13 independent photographers from Rome and beyond, featuring the city's architecture and urban landscapes in a new light. This carefully curated and bound collection of over 200 photographs offers a new perspective on Rome. Each chapter is accompanied by a map, along with the locations where the photographs were taken.

From the Colosseum and the Roman Forum to St. Peter's Basilica and Vatican City to the magnificence of the Pantheon, these images command a strong point of view: digitally processed, filtered, toned, de-saturated, sharpened, for a very urban sensibility. Showcasing both the historic elegance and timeless grandeur of contemporary Rome, the images reveal distinctive and dramatic visions of one of the world’s greatest cities.

The most comprehensive publication to date on the stunning modernist architecture that defined the landscape of Soviet-era Ukraine

What does Ukrainian modernist architecture look like, and why isn’t it better known in the West? Photographer and architectural tour guide Dmytro Soloviov is fighting to preserve the disappearing modernist heritage of his native Ukraine. These innovative buildings represent an extraordinary blend of function, avant-garde aesthetics and ingenious design, but despite these qualities, they remain largely unrecognized. This is a result of several factors, including the stigma of belonging to the Soviet era, corruption, neglect, as well as the ongoing threat of destruction from both unscrupulous developers and war. From masterpieces such as the Kyiv Crematorium and Salut Hotel, to previously undocumented examples like the Uzhhorod Airport Terminal and the Novoarkhanhelsk Police Station, Soloviov has traversed Ukraine photographing the exteriors and interiors of these important buildings and their monumental art (mosaics, stained glass and sculptures). While the nation’s attention is consumed by more existential matters, he has documented the unique identity of one of the least cataloged periods of Soviet architecture, his images forming a singular record of an unexpected and rapidly disappearing legacy. An introduction by renowned architecture critic Owen Hatherley, complete with historical images, cements these buildings in a cultural and political context. With over 120 examples across 240 pages, this publication is the most comprehensive available on the subject.