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.

A new exhibition documents American photography's first 70 years, exploring the US during a period of immense social, ...

But as conventional as Prior’s composition may have been, Lawson’s sitting for the portrait was a radical ... Black subjects from the 17th to 19th centuries opens in November.

The Maillets began buying daguerreotypes in the 1960s and their 200-strong collection spans the full history and evolution of ...

and 19th-century watercolor sketches were snapped up by bidders. But the rare, pre-Civil War portrait of the formally-dressed Black man that was expected to sell for $300,000 to $500,000 was ...

“Photography democratized portraiture ... the best-known American photographer of the 19th century, had opened his first portrait studio, in New York City in 1844. Using the daguerreotype ...

You can view three 19th-century paintings with deep cultural and historical importance to Hawaii that are rarely accessible to the public.

In 1847, French photography pioneer Charles Nègre created a 3D self-portrait using a "witch's mirror" - a clever piece of 19th-century surveillance technology. These convex mirrors, popular in ...