Early Portrait Photography in New Bedford" at the New Bedford Whaling Museum and "The Scenic Daguerreotype in America: 1840-1860” at the Wadsworth in Hartford offer excellent looks at photography of ...

A new exhibition at the New Bedford Whaling Museum explores early photography, providing a window into the lives of those who ...

That was one of the revelations a group of conservation experts from Brazil, Portugal, and the U.S. took away upon re-examining a series of what are believed to be among the oldest surviving ...

Earlier this month, the Musée d’Art et d’Histoire (MAH), Geneva, opened “Loving: The Hugh Nini and Neal Treadwell Collection” at its temporary exhibition space at Musée Rath. The event marks the first ...

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 ...

Henry Pointer, "The Old Batchelor" (post-1860s) (image courtesy BG/OLOU / Alamy) We might think of the preponderance of pet photographs as a modern phenomenon, but a new exhibition at the National ...

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, ...

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 ...

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, ...

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.

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