The most authoritative and wide-ranging survey on the place of photography in contemporary art and culture.

Art and Photography was the first book to survey the major presence of photography at the centre of artistic practice from the 1960s onwards. On its invention, the photograph was considered an artless object that could not be included in the fine arts.

Jeff Wall's Picture for Women (1979) marks the transition of photography as an art form from the printed page to the gallery wall.

From film stills and flipbooks to slide shows and digital imaging, hybrid visual forms have established an ambiguous realm between motion and stillness.