Paris. Portrait of a City. XL

English edition. A city built on two millennia of history, Paris enters the third century of its love affair with photography. It was on the banks of the Seine that Niépce and Daguerre officially gave life to this new art which has flourished ever since, developing a distinctive language and becoming a vital tool of knowledge.
Paris: Portrait of the City takes us through what Goethe described as a "universal city where every step on a bridge or square recalls a great past, where a fragment of history unfolds on the corner of every street". The history of Paris is told in photographs ranging from Daguerre's earliest incunabula to his most recent images: an almost complete documentation of more than a century and a half of transformations and a vast panorama covering more than 600 pages and 500 photographs.