The museum highlights the artistic and technological evolution of photography in the U.S., in a show full of surprising ...

As we scroll through our social media feeds today, we’re bombarded with countless images enhanced by modern photo editing tools. But the desire to perfect one’s appearance isn’t new. In the past, ...

In ‘Flashes of Brilliance’ (Norton, July), the photo editor traces the evolution of photography from the mid-19th to the ...

The article presents 19th-century photographic tableaux as early forms of social media – visual tools for connection, status, and memory. Through examples like Mickiewicz and Sienkiewicz, it draws ...

How One Photographer Recreated 19th Century Portraits With the Descendants of Civil War Heroes Smithsonian magazine commissioned Drew Gardner for a project that connects Black Americans today to ...

Sophie Mousseau was photographed at Fort Laramie alongside six white Army officers. But her identity—and her life ...

The Center for Creative Photography in Tucson has a new exhibit to celebrate the golden anniversary of a vast and ...

The 19th-century portraits of Angelo Giulio "Diego" Bernacchi and his wife Barbe were donated by their great-great-granddaughter Clare Bernacchi. Ms Bernacchi, from Auckland, recently visited ...

as you can see with the couple in the first image who likely went to a studio for their portrait in 1875. But by the time photography became popular in America in the mid-19th century and ...