A rare collection of early aviation glass lantern slides documenting Italian aviator Carlo Francesco Lombardi's long-distance ...

Antiques shops sometimes sell them as "instant relatives," although why anyone would want more relatives is hard to fathom. The old photographs, however -- that's another story. It's easy to ...

This image, taken by an unknown photographer in 1905, is an example of a cyanotype. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, William L. Schaeffer Collection A new exhibition at the crossroads of art, history ...

Pietro Dovizielli, “Temple of Vesta” (1855), salted paper print from paper negative (courtesy the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gilman Collection, Purchase, the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift, ...

“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 ...

Have you wondered why people in early photographs wear such solemn expressions? Deerfield's Memorial Hall Museum opens their 2008 season on May 1st with a special exhibition, Don't Smile for the ...

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.

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.

The question seems completely absurd to us in the 21st century: should we use cameras to help with astronomical research? Well, of course. Why wouldn’t we? But in the early 20th century, this was a ...

The contemporary daguerreotype series was funded by the Australian Research Council project ‘Capturing Foundational Australian Photography in a Globalising World’ DE200101322, and supported by the ...