Gerhard Paul depicts the history of modernity as a visual age: it is both a history of images and a history of visual practices in the 19th and 20th centuries. In his magnum opus, he analyzes nearly a thousand images from diverse fields such as advertising and propaganda, science and journalism, police practices and warfare. Paul vividly demonstrates how even non-visual reality is increasingly structured according to iconographic and media rules. He emphasizes how general visibility rules are repeatedly violated, causing the zones of visibility and invisibility to shift permanently. With 'The Visual Age - Point & Pixel,' Gerhard Paul presents a comprehensive and richly illustrated history of images and image practices of modernity: a standard work on visual history.