19th century illustration of a Nadar Detective camera / april-mo, Flickr, Creative Commons What gave photography power...
Photography
‘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...
“Young China”, featured in Camps and Trails in China (1918) / HathiTrust Digital Library Although often overshadowed by the...
Eastman Kodak Advertisement for the Brownie Camera, c. 1900 By Dr. Juliana Kreinik / 08.09.2015 Art Historian,...
ひろしま/hiroshima #9 (Ogawa Ritsu), 2007, Ishiuchi Miyako. Chromogenic print. © Ishiuchi Miyako 70 years after the bombing...
Photograph of a Sinhalese woman by Julia Margaret Cameron, 1875 – Flickr, Creative Commons Leaving her close-knit artistic...
Casemate H667, 2006, Jane and Louise Wilson. Black and white Laser Chrome print. © Jane and Louise...
An Intertype Fotosetter, one of the most popular “first-generation” mass-market phototypesetting machines. The system is heavily based...
People in Downtown Havana / Walker Evans Archive, The Metropolitan Museum of Art By Jessica Portner / 07.18.2011 Editorial...
Henry Wellcome with Sultans of Socota [Jebel Moya]. Photograph, 191? Wellcome Images reference: M0008634. By Carly Dakin...
Photographer Graciela Iturbide Artist and illustrator Zeke Peña talks about making comic books and bringing photographer Graciela...
Chris Edwards photographs the interior of the Berlin Philharmonic, 2017. Photos: Emily Pugh Why photographing buildings is...
Left: Dianne Newman, 1966, Neal Barr. Gelatin silver print, 17 x 13 7/8 in. The J. Paul Getty...
Bruce Lindsey, “Paradise Valley, MT. July 28, 2013.” Lindsey explores the inherent tensions of landscape photography. By...
Angelic Upstarts at a Miners’ Benefit Dance at the Barbary Coast Club, Sunderland, Wearside (detail), 1984, Chris Killip....
May 5th, 1981, Housing Estate, North Shields, Tyneside, negative, 1981; print, 2014, Chris Killip. Gelatin silver print....
People at the United Tribes Technical College Powwow are photographed as an ambrotype in 2016. The crowd...
“Shouldering the imitation ox”, from a 1909 edition of Richard Kearton’s Wild Nature’s Ways / archive.org John...
By Dr. Peter Kruschwitz / 04.23.2017 From The Petrified Muse Professor of Classics Fellow of the Pontifical...
By Dr. Lionel Gossman / 05.28.2015 M. Taylore Pyne Professor of Romance Languages Princeton University The best-known,...
Dear Bill Gates, 1999, Allan Sekula. Photograph. The Getty Research Institute, 2016.M.22. © Allan Sekula Studio LLC....
By Dr. Lionel Gossman / 05.28.2015 M. Taylore Pyne Professor of Romance Languages Princeton University Annan appears...
By Dr. Lionel Gossman / 05.28.2015 M. Taylore Pyne Professor of Romance Languages Princeton University Like portraiture,...