Even in its grainy, black-and-white nascence nearly 200 years ago, it was clear that photography would be a game-changing invention. For the first time, a medium could capture people and places in ...

The Smithsonian American Art Museum has acquired a collection of objects related to early American photography from the collector Larry J. West that transforms the museum’s photography holdings. The L ...

A photograph is a photograph, right? It's pretty hard to mistake it for anything else. In fact, there is an amazing variety of photographs and many are the collectors who specialize in one type or ...

The Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) in Washington, D.C. has acquired a trove of early photographs that will help expand the narrative of the medium’s origins. Included are portraits of ...

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 Leonard Pearlstein Gallery of Drexel University’s Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design will present “NEPAL: Contemporary Paintings and Early Photographs in the collection of Dr.

A new exhibition at the crossroads of art, history and technology chronicles the beginnings of early American photography. Titled “The New Art: American Photography, 1839-1910,” the show at the ...

Charles L. Griffin, "Toddler with dog" (c. 1892), gelatin silver print (Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas, photo courtesy the Amon Carter Museum of American Art) Success! Your ...

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.

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 ...

Victorian photography studios loved a good illusion, whether it was to accommodate the long exposure time, or play with it. There were no photographs taken of the 1865 funeral of New Yorker Seabury ...