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Below the asphalt in the City of Lights, plunging as deep as a five-story building, is an underground ossuary containing the remains of millions of Parisians.

Review The Edwardians: Age of Elegance; Cartier review – excess all areas King’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace; V&A, London British royal history in the era of Fabergé, photography, empire, war and tiny waists is an expertly spangled soap opera.

It all officially began in 1839 in two countries at the same time: in the UK, the Royal Academy announced the discovery of a method of capturing images on paper by the action of light; in France, the government awarded Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre an annuity for his invention...

For its second survey of photography, the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia is presenting nearly 250 early photographs—most of which have never been exhibited before—created by British and French photographers between the 1840s and 1880s.

Our picks from upcoming fairs and auctions in the next fortnight

His studio hosted the first Impressionist exhibition and he took the world’s first aerial photo: Félix Nadar lived an extraordinary life, as Cath Pound discovers.

The Getty Museum’s new exhibition Real/Ideal: Photography in France, 1847–1860 delves into the early history of photography at a moment when French photographers were making enormous strides in developing the medium’s technical and aesthetic possibilities.

Phillips de Pury & Company is pleased to announce the highlights of the forthcoming evening sale titled The Arc of Photography: A Private East Coast Collection