With these four words, it is possible to talk about the entire world up to the present day, as well as the complete history of photography, but also to summarize in their simplest form what your next vacation will be like. Indeed, the elasticity of these four words is great enough to encompass the entire planet Earth for two million seven hundred thousand years, the date of the first tools we have record of.

In a different order, they recount the progress of photography, which first presented places such as “Le Point de Vue du Gras,” taken in 1827 by Nicéphore Niepce on the outskirts of Chalon-sur-Saône, then objects in the form of white sculptures standing out against a black background in Hippolyte Bayard's experiments, and then, from 1840 onwards, the era of human beings with the first daguerreotype portraits, solidly seated and discreetly immobilized to hold their pose. It was not until 40 years later, with wet collodion, that movement could be captured and actions frozen on negatives.

In short, these four words are the basis of all drama, and you won't be disappointed! In the pages of this book, you will find, repeatedly, a character, an action, a place, and an object. You can check this carefully.