Topography and travel: the first photobooks ; Facing facts: the nineteenth-century photobook as record ; Photography as art: the pictorial photobook ; Photo eye: the modernist photobook ; A day in the life: the documentary photobook in the 1930s ; Medium and message: the photobook as propaganda ; Memory and reconstruction: the postwar European photobook ; The indecisive moment: the 'stream-of-consciousness' photobook ; Provocative materials for thought: the postwar Japanese photobook