Following on the heels of the highly successful Isms: Understanding Art, Isms: Understanding Architecture, and the latest volume in the series Isms: Understanding Modern Art comes this handy small-format guide to the history of photography. Loaded with reproductions of seminal works and rounded out with a glossary and index of names, this guide is the best and most concise single volume introduction for students and beginners

An engaging and informative guide to all the significant ‘isms’ - schools and movements - that have shaped photography from the earliest daguerreotypes through the 20th century and into the present.