The history of images can be described as a history of technology and mediality. The development of images is deeply rooted in the potentials of media technologies and the numerous human inventions in the range of traditional craftsmanship, engineering science, computer science, and art and design. The factual embedding of images in the historical-technological processes constitutes a complex structure of an autonomous image evolution that must be highlighted, characterized, and analyzed by the interdisciplinary academic discourses related to the functions and structures of visuality, pictoriality, and forms of multi-sensory representations. The chosen term evolution deliberately indicates structural laws that underlie historical events. These laws are intentional and logical processes of historical and technological interdependency. In this interdependency, techno.