Introduction: The age of light / Michel Frizot
Light machines: on the threshold of invention / Michel Frizot
1839-1840: Photographic development / Michel Frizot
A new world of pictures: The use and spread of the daguerreotype process / Timm Starl
Automated drawing: the truthfulness of the calotype / Michel Frizot
The transparent medium: from industrial product to the Salon des Beaux-arts / Michel Frizot
All kinds of portraits: the photographer's studio / Jean Sagne
The century's memorial: Photography and the recording of history / Hubertus von Amelunxen
Around the world: explorers, travelers, and tourists / Franc抬oise Heilbrun
Life in three dimensions: the charms of stereoscopy / Pierre-Marc Richard
Artistic aspirations: the lure of the fine art / Mike Weaver
The urban machine: architecture and industry / Elvire Perego
The photograph in print: multiplication and stability of the image / Sylvie Aubenas --
Photography on the spur of the moment: instant impressions / Jean-Claude Gautrand
Speed of photography: movement and duration / Michel Frizot
Body of evidence: The ethnophotography of difference / Michel Frizot
The all-powerful eye: the form of the invisible / Michel Frizot
Naturalistic vision and symbolist image: the pictorial impulse / Anne Hammond
Towards new photography: renewals of pictorialism / Peter C. Bunnell
Intimate moments and secret gardens: the artist as amateur photographer / Elvire Perego
The other half: the investigation of society / Thilo Koenig
Photography and the media: changes in the illustrated press / Pierre Albert and Gilles Feyel
States of things: image and aura / Michel Frizot
Another kind of photography: new points of views / Michel Frizot
Photography and history: Euge虁ne Atget / Molly Nesbit
A natural strangeness: the hypothesis of color / Michel Frizot --
Metamorphoses of the image: Photo-graphics and the alienation of meaning / Michel Frizot
Figures of style: new vision, new photography / Andreas Haus and Michel Frizot
Austerity and clarity: new photography in the United States, 1920-1940 / John Pultz
Portrait of society: the anonymous and the famous / Pierre Vaisse
The way life goes: suffering and hope / Ian Jeffrey
The dream of beauty: fashion and fantasy / Franc抬oise Ducros
The spread of photography: commissions, advertising, publishing / Thomas Michael Gunther
Close witnesses: the involvement of the photojournalist / Fred Ritchin
Looking at others: Humanism and neo-realism / Jean-Claude Gautrand
On the road and in the street: the post-war period in the United States / Colin Westerbeck
Beyond reality: the subjective vision / Shelley Rice
Japan and photography: in quest of the other / Chihiro Minato
Photographic institutions and practices / Stuart Alexander --
The sensitive surface: photographic substrate, imprint, memory / Michel Frizot
Forms of looking: philosophy and photography / Yves Michaud
Rituals and customs: photographs as memories / Michel Frizot
Methods of producing photographic prints / Anne Cartier-Bresson.