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

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.

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 ...

The total value of an artist’s artworks sold at auction over a specific period. This metric reflects the artist’s overall market activity and demand in monetary terms. The middle value of all realized ...

“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 ...

The total value of an artist’s artworks sold at auction over a specific period. This metric reflects the artist’s overall market activity and demand in monetary terms. The middle value of all realized ...

The images, dating as far back as the 19th Century, are believed to depict people from Lincolnshire. Photographer Jamie O'Neill creates a unique collection of portraits of people in his home city.

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 ...