Foreword and acknowledgments to the lenders / Max Hollein
an impressionist and photography / Karin Sagner
a new perception of space. Panorama photography
Paris in all its details ; Stereoscopy
the breakthrough into 3-D ; The fascination of space.
the city's street furniture. The patient photographer of Parisian street furniture ; From above to below ; The view from above.
Aesthetics of work. The appeal of technical structures ; The beauty of the unspectacular.
Reading Gustave Caillebotte's Pont de I'Europe (1876) / Claude Ghez
Flâneurs, Dandies, and other dramatis personae. Depicting the momentary through movement ; THe freezing of movement ; Passing the time with a camera.
'Everything as though under a magic spell'
The depiction of street life in nineteenth-century photographs / Ulrich Pohlmann.
Citizens seen in close view. Positions far from Formal posing.
Staging of objects. Putting things on display
Commodities and private idealisation.
Landscape and abstraction. The exploration of painting ; Austere Arrangements.
Unconventional views through movement. Voyeurs and pedestrians, or: Walking in the city and in the country ; Photography
The only reliable depiction of reality ; In praise if idleness ; Creating an awareness of things by a new way of seeing ; 'The magical en passant'
The alienation of the everyday.
biography / Gilles Chardeau.