Amazon.com description: Product Description: This original publication is the first in a new series devoted to photographic masterpieces from the international collection of the National Gallery of Canada. An introductory essay describes the development of photography artistically, technically and socially from 1900 to 1940. Eighty individual works are then presented with full page duo tone plates. Among the artists are Eugene Atget, Margaret Bourke-White, Brassai, Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, Lisette Model, Alexander Rodchenko and Edward Weston.