There's a legend that when the Lumiere brothers -- pioneers of motion pictures -- showed their film of an approaching train in 1896, the audience ran amok in terror ...

Lillian Gish. Harold Lloyd. The inimitable Buster Keaton. No discussion of silent movies is complete without mention of — and tribute to — those silver-screen pioneers. But no single figure epitomizes ...

In 1907, the Lumière brothers, Auguste and Louis, introduced the first viable method of color photography. Although color photographs had existed, the process was clumsy and complicated. The key ...

Simply sign up to the Fashion myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Described by photography historian John Wood as “the rarest, the most fragile and, to a great many eyes, the most ...

For all intents and purposes, photography here in 2024 is digital. Of course chemical photography still exists, and there are a bunch of us who love it for what it is, but even as we hang up our ...

August and Louis Lumière were pioneers in photography. Legend has it that in 1895, when they premiered their first motion picture film of a train entering a station, audiences fled in terror, fearing ...

This photograph was made in the early 1900s using the Autochrome process, which starts with dyed potato starch. Photo: Mervyn O’Gorman The potato is one of the least colorful of the good Lord’s ...

Laura Gilpin (1891-1979). "Woman in black and white striped skirt seated in chair." 1979 Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, Bequest of the artist Laura Gilpin (1891- 1979). "Basket of peaches," c.

Stunning color images recently made available in high resolution by a French museum capture much of the world as it was transformed by technology and geopolitics 100 years ago. This image of a young ...

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