Early scientists were eager to use photographic technologies to learn more about the moon. You’ve probably seen...
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The overlapping forces at play behind pioneering color photography in the early 20th-century Russian Empire. This article,...
Introduction In today’s digital age, content creators play a vital role in shaping the online landscape. Whether...
Yosemite Valley and the Sierras became a career- and life-altering place for Adams. A keen landscape photographer,...
In 1972, Hiser was one of several photographers chosen by the EPA to document locations in the...
His ultimate goal was to educate the schoolchildren of Russia with his “optical color projections” of history....
They captured these places with stunning austerity and incredible consistency. Introduction In the late 1950s, photographers Bernd...
Letizia Battaglia’s images of Mafia bloodshed made it impossible to turn a blind eye to the criminal...
Russian Constructivist artists were concerned with making a new socially productive, utilitarian art. Introduction Alexander Rodchenko’s 1928...
People wanted to use photography not only to document the aftermath of war and violence, but also...
After experimenting with different camera systems, Muybridge made a series of photographs at Stanford’s Palo Alto horse...
For Nadar his name was attached not only to his art, but also to a persona that...
Daguerre—a Parisian theatrical scene-painter/designer and showman—saw his new medium as part-art, part-science. By Dr. Kris Belden-AdamsAssociate Professor...
Many artists and critics debated whether photography belonged within the realm of art exhibited in galleries and...
Photography arrived in China from Europe in the mid-nineteenth century. Introduction Can a photograph be appreciated in...
The images serve as a testament to how clinical photography practice has changed as a result of...
Why are photographers drawn to crime scenes? Introduction The man in the photograph above is Dick Hickock,...
Sara’s images defined the Soviet Union at its ‘base line’. What was life like in early Soviet...
Lynes was a highly sought-after commercial and fashion photographer in the 1930s and 1940s. But he had...
Dance bonnet and scalplock of an Omaha Indian / Wellcome Collection, Creative Commons The legacy and impact of...
Portrait of Assuz, a San Carlos Apache Indian, c 1898 / Wellcome Collection, Creative Commons The pictures...
19th century illustration of a Nadar Detective camera / april-mo, Flickr, Creative Commons What gave photography power...
‘House of the dragoman [translator] of British Consulate Basra’, 1906 (IOR/L/PS/20/C260, f 27), Public Domain Wilfrid Malleson’s...
Read my lips (and forehead). Wikimedia Commons Abraham Lincoln brought commercial photographers on board. By Dr. Joanna...
This photograph was taken by an official British war photographer, Thomas Keith Aitken, in July 1918. It...
Three Girls, 1890, photographer unknown. Albumen print. Pierre de Gigord Collection of Photographs of the Ottoman Empire...
Rewriting history from the air. William S Hanson Scrutinizing archives of aerial photography, we have been able to...
Some of the earliest applications of photography came in the fields of archaeology and botany. Pictured is...
Linnaeus Tripe, Front of the Mundapum at Secundermalie, 1858. © Wilson Centre for Photography The history of photography needs to...
It’s been 70 years of instant photography, thanks to Edwin Land, on the left. AP Photo Whether at...