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| Introduction |
| 1 | Introduction to photography in France |
| Instruction manuals |
| 2 | Daguerreotype manuals and instructions: France |
| Daguerreotypes |
| 3 | Daguerreotypes: Paris |
| 4 | Daguerreotypes: France: Landscapes and cityscapes |
| 5 | Floods in Nantes, France (1843) |
| 6 | Daguerreotypes: Paris: Notre-Dame |
| Calotypes and salt prints |
| 7 | Introduction to calotypes in France |
| 8 | Henry Fox Talbot: France: Paris |
| 9 | Henry Fox Talbot: France: Orleans |
| 10 | Calotypes and salt prints: France |
| Publications |
| 11 | France: Photography magazines and journals |
| Landscape |
| 12 | Early French landscape photographers |
| 13 | Reasons for French pre-eminence in nineteenth century landscape photography |
| 14 | Eugène Cuvelier: France: Forest of Fontainebleau |
| 15 | Camille Silvy: River Scene (1858) |
| 16 | John Mounteney Jephson: Narrative of a Walking Tour in Brittany (1859) |
| 17 | Bisson frères: Mt. Blanc (1860s) |
| 18 | Emile de La Bédollière & Ildefonse Rousset: Le tour de Marne / décrit et photographie´ par Émile de la Bédollière et Ildefonse Rousset (1865) |
| 19 | John Stewart: Pyrenees (1850s) |
| 20 | Vicomte Joseph Vigier: Pyrenees |
| 21 | Farnham Maxwell Lyte: The Pyrenees |
| 22 | Robert Demachy: Landscapes |
| Cities |
| 23 | France: Arles |
| 24 | France: Chartres |
| 25 | France: Marseille |
| 26 | France: Rheims (Reims) |
| 27 | France: Rouen |
| 28 | France: Aix-les-Bains: Thermal spa |
| Locations |
| 29 | France: Pont du Gard |
| Documentary projects |
| 30 | Mission Héliographique |
| 31 | Edmond Bacot: Christian architecture and cultural heritage in France |
| 32 | Charles Nègre: Vincennes Imperial Asylum (1859) |
| 33 | Édouard Baldus: Inondations du Rhône à Lyon et Avignon (1856) |
| 34 | Édouard Baldus: Les chemins de fer du Nord. Ligne de Paris à Boulogne. Vues photographiques |
| 35 | Adolphe Terris: Rénovation de la Vieille Ville de Marseille (1862) |
| 36 | Édouard Baldus: Chemins de fer de Paris à Lyon et à la Méditerranée (1860s) |
| 37 | William J. Stillman: Normandy (ca 1861) |
| 38 | Eugène Atget: The streets and buildings of Paris |
| 39 | Delmaet & Durandelle: The Paris Opera (1861-1875) |
| 40 | Les Travaux Publics de la France (1878-1882) |
| 41 | Richebourg: Carte geologique detaillee de la France, Feuille 48.- Paris (1879) |
| Portraits |
| 42 | André Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri: Photomontages - Mosaïques |
| 43 | Andre Adolphe-Eugene Disderi: Portraits of The Second Empire |
| 44 | Nadar: Galerie Contemporaine, Littéraire, Artistique |
| Souvenirs |
| 45 | Souvenir sets of travel photographs |
| Pictorialism in France |
| 46 | Pictorialism in France |
| 47 | The Photo Club of Paris (Le Photo Club de Paris) |
| Illustrated magazines |
| 48 | Illustrated magazines in France |
| 49 | VU |
| Political propaganda before the Second World War |
| 50 | Marinus: Anti-Nazi political photomontage in France |
| Street photography |
| 51 | The humanism of street photography in France |
| 52 | Classic French street photography |
| 53 | Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Decisive Moment |
| 54 | Robert Doisneau: Humanistic photography |
| 55 | Édouard Boubat: Street photography and tender moments |
| Social conflict and war |
| 56 | Year of Revolutions (1848): France, Paris |
| 57 | Gustave Le Gray: Camp de Châlons (1857) |
| 58 | Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871): Introduction |
| First World War (1914-1918) |
| 59 | Devastation of French cities, towns and villages during the First World War (1914-1918) |
| 60 | Submarine warfare during the First World War (1914-1918) |
| 61 | Photomontage during the Paris Commune (1871) |
| 62 | Robert Capa: D-Day, Normandy (6 June 1944) |
| Photobooks |
| 63 | French photobooks |
