When George Shiras published his wildlife photographs in National Geographic it transformed the medium with his novel use of ...

Early photography lacked the convenience of the stable roll film we all know, and instead relied on a set of processes which the photographer would have to master from film to final print.

“In Light of Rome” comprehensively explores the contribution made by the cosmopolitan art center to the early history of photography and traces the medium’s rise there that forever changed the way we ...

The dominant perception of early photography from West Africa is that it was taken through a colonizing lens. Of Europeans in the mid-19th century spreading through the arteries of the region, new ...

KOLKATA: The beauty of the Himalayas, captured in lens at the turn of the 20th century before rampant "development" scarred the foothills and triggered tragedies like the flash flood at Uttarkashi on ...

The relationship between photography and modern medicine is akin to siblings: emerging almost simultaneously in the 19th century, they grew and evolved together, and today, they are more inseparable ...

Sometimes when we look at photos of people from the past, they gaze at the camera with a solemn expression, hardly ever smiling. This, often, leads us to believe centuries ago people weren’t out ...

ANTHREF copy 39088010703403 has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Purchased from the Lloyd and Charlotte Wineland Library Endowment for Native American and Western Exploration Literature.

The decades following the American Civil War were a time of many firsts. On Dec. 31, 1879, in Menlo Park, New Jersey, Thomas ...

The Tennessee State Museum’s latest temporary exhibition, "Photography in Tennessee: Early Studios and the Medium’s First Century," opens June 10. The show explores the origins and impact of ...