



This work traces the history of photography from its invention in 1827 to its contemporary uses, through the collections of the Nicéphore Niépce Museum, which comprise four million photographs, 8,000 cameras, and 30,000 magazines and technical or illustrated books. Off the beaten path, it presents an “alternative history” of photography, focusing on the richness of the medium in the diversity of its techniques, artistic movements, and modes of dissemination. It documents the social, documentary, and commercial dimensions of photography from its origins. Deliberately heterogeneous and quasi-encyclopedic, it bears witness to the many paths taken by photography.
The design of this publication, published by Éditions Textuel, was entrusted to the French graphic designer Le Petit Didier. He chose the typeface Garaje (with Garaje Mono, by Thomas Huot-Marchand, 205TF) for headings and subheadings, and the typeface Portada Text (José Scaglione and Veronika Burian, TypeTogether) for body text and captions.


