In 1979 Margaret Thatcher was elected Prime Minister of the United Kingdom; in 1989 the Berlin Wall fell. This one decade, bookended by those two historical events, transformed Europe and the world: the application of TCP and IP protocols gave rise to virtual communication networks and the American political scientist Francis Fukuyama speculated that -the end of history- had arrived. The 1980s witnessed changes in the practice of photography too, with photographers sensing the end of industrial society and striving to adapt to the onset of globalization--an evolution traced in this volume....