Seeking the Impossible. An Anthology of Texts on the Origin of Photography is structured in three volumes arranged chronologically: Utopia addresses the moments leading up to the origin of photography, the frustrated attempts, and the anticipation of all that could be achieved. Among the various texts found in this volume is an essay on combustion, aiming for a new art of dyeing and painting; a description of the method for copying paintings on glass; and the daguerreotype, among other procedures and advancements. Materiality, on the other hand, discusses the period immediately preceding the public announcement of photography and the reactions that the arrival of such a unique phenomenon quickly sparked in all fields. “Fixation of Images from the Camera Obscura,” by Dominique François Arago, and “Procedure for Obtaining Photogenic Images on Paper,” by Hippolyte Bayard, are some of the texts included in this second volume. The third, Praxis, describes an exciting period in which applications were found from multiple fields, as well as the challenge of creating and consolidating a new profession, and the upheaval brought by the advent of reproducible images, which marked the progress of photography; it recounts the development of the technique of an invention that underwent rapid improvement and expansion, the problems faced by early photographers, and the responses they devised to solve them... This third volume includes, for example, correspondence from William Henry Fox Talbot about the calotype; “Daguerrian Excursions: the Most Notable Views and Monuments of the World,” by Noël-Marie Paymal Lerebours; or the notebook of Anna Atkins “British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions.”