TASCHEN's Great Adventure began back in 1980, when eighteen-year-old Benedikt Taschen opened a shop in his native Cologne, Germany, to market his massive comics collection.Within a year he began publishing catalogs promoting his wares, but it wasn't until 1984 that his first art-book breakthrough occurred: he purchased 40,000 remainder copies of a Magritte book printed in English, reselling them for a fraction of their original price. From a young age, Taschen had been interested in art but found that art books were too expensive and hard to obtain, and the success of this daring move proved that Taschen was not alone in thinking that the art-book market should be democratized. Soon he began reprinting books under his own name for budget prices and the next year he published his first original title and the first book in the Basic Art series: Picasso...

Starting in the late 1980s, T ASCHEN established subsidiaries across the globe and continued to cement its reputation as a publisher of excellent-value books while branching out into new areas such as architecture, design, photography, lifestyle and classics. In 2000, TASCHEN surprised the world by breaking the record for the most expensive book published Jn the 20th century: copy #1 of Helmut Newton's SUMO, signed by over 80 celebrities featured in it, fetched over $300;000 at a charity auction. A year later TASCHEN launched its cinema collection with Billy Wilder's Some Like it Hot. Then, in 2003, TASCHEN tipped the scales with its massive, legendary Muhammad All tribute book, GOAT.

Twenty-five years after Benedikt Taschen opened his little comics shop, TASCHEN has grown into one of the most successful and unique publishers in the global market, publishing an eclectic variety of books for people of all tastes and budget ranges, distributed worldwide in over twenty languages. Within the space of the last few years, TASCHEN has opened bookshops in Paris and Los Angeles, with plans to keep ex- panding to new cities as our Great Adventure continues. For the future of publishing, keep your eye on TASCHEN.

Forewoed

ANTHONY BANNON

The Collections at George

Eastman House

MARIANNE FULTON

A Legacy in the Making

THERESE MULLIGAN

The Blind Man's Elephant

DAVID WOOTERS

Acknowlegements

About This Publication

All Things under the Sun

Daguerre and the

Daguerreotype

Southworth and Hawes

Talbot and the Paper Negative

Hill and Adamson

The Calotype in France

An Even Greater Measure

Italy - Rome

Italy- Pompeii

Italy- Florence

Italy - Venice

The Middle East- Egypt

The Middle East- Palestine

and Syria, Baalbek, Palmyra,

Jerusalem

The Middle East - Turkey

India

The Far East - Japan

The Far East - China

The Americas

The American West

California and the Far West

Technology and War

Technology

Crimea

The American Civil War

A Matter of'Fact

Photography's Public

and Private Lives

Artful Ambitions

An Art of Its Own

Our Modern World

The Object Photographed

Photography Sells

Public Record

Candid Witness

The Visual Mind

America Seen

The World Beat

Peers and Predecessors

Glossary

Selected Bibliography

Photographers' Credits

Index of Photographers