This 88-page history of photography is written in an interesting style suitable for the general reader rather than for someone wanting to delve into all the intricate details of photographic history. It is nicely illustrated, and follows a mostly chronological approach, beginning in 1826 with the earliest silver plates, the forerunners of film. The reader is taken through such eras as the Civil War, nature photographers in the western U.S., and eventually the development of "cameras for everyone" with emphasis on the Kodak cameras.