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 ...

This Victorian chemist's experiments in silver plating prefigured today's obsession with sensor technology and exposure times ...

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 ...

Ever wondered when was photography invented? Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, a Frenchman, is the person who takes the credit for taking the world's first permanent photograph in around 1826. Interestingly, ...

George Shaw is one of Birmingham's "most overlooked innovators", according to the organisers of the city-centre display. Shaw not only created the first photograph in the city but also championed ...

At the Middlebury College Museum of Art, “The Light of the Levant: Early Photography and the Late Ottoman Empire” depicts a game-changing convergence of time, place and technology. A reverse ...

The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery announced today that it has acquired the earliest known photograph of a U.S. First Lady for its permanent collection. Likely dating from 1846, the recently ...

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

President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation two and a half years before all enslaved people in Confederate territory were told they were free. Juneteenth, a combination of "June" ...