Things: A Spectrum of Photography, 1850 2001

Things, published in association with London’s Victoria and Albert Museum and drawn from its superb photography collection, showcases the work of artists, scientists, reporters, and advertising and editorial photographers. Ranging over 150 years, it includes the images of ninety photographers, from Fox Talbot and Julia Margaret Cameron to Edward Weston, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Irving Penn, Diane Arbus, and that of a new generation on the cutting edge of recent technology. Things is an enlightening and coherent study of how we view the physical world, and within its pages is contained the history of photography itself.