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 ...

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 ...