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 birth to this new art, which has flourished ever since, developing a distinctive language and becoming a vital tool of knowledge.
Paris: Portrait of a City takes us through what Goethe described as a "universal city where every step across a bridge or a square recalls a great past, where a fragment of history unfolds at every street corner." The history of Paris is told in photographs ranging from Daguerre's earliest incunabula to the most recent images: a nearly complete documentation of over a century and a half of transformations and a vast panorama spanning more than 600 pages and 500 photographs.