Section
i: List of Illustrations Section
ii: Prologue: My First Daguerreotype Chapter
1: The Locked Treasure Room Chapter
2: Shadowgrams Chapter
3: The Box of Wonders Chapter
4: An Inheritance Chapter
5: The Panorama Chapter
6: An Innate Love of Knowledge Chapter
7: More Beautiful than Nature Chapter
8: Lacock Abbey Chapter
9: Seeking the Impossible Chapter
10: The Heliograph Chapter
11: The Melancholy Artist Chapter
12: Fixing the Image Chapter
13: The Latticed Window, August 1835 Chapter
14: The Magic Cabinet Chapter
15: The Most Wonderful Discovery Ever Made Chapter
16: From Today, Painting is Dead Chapter
17: Photogenic Drawing Chapter
18: The Académie des Sciences, August 1839 Chapter
19: Daguerreotypomania Chapter
20: Portraiture Chapter
21: The Pencil of Nature Chapter
22: The Monopoly of the Sunshine Chapter
23: The Great Exhibition of 1851 Chapter
24: The Reluctant Inventor Chapter
25: Art or Science? Chapter
26: The Mute Testimony of the Picture Chapter
27: The Eye of History Section
iii: Epilogue: Everyman's Art Acknowledgements
iv: Acknowledgements Section
v: Notes Section
vi: Bibliography Index
vii: Index
