Frederick Douglass is perhaps best known as an abolitionist and intellectual. But he was also the most photographed American of the 19th century. And he encouraged the use of photography to promote ...

Time was when Rachel Portesi did much of her photography using Polaroid film. She loved the immediacy of the image, the way each photo was different and often didn’t quite match what her eye had seen, ...

Arresting portraits, now a part of the Smithsonian collections, illuminate the little-known role these artists played in chronicling 19th-century life Rhoda Goodridge in a 2 ¾-by-3 ¼-inch ambrotype ...

OWEGO (WBNG) -- Photography captures a moment in time, but during the early 19th and 20th century, photographers were predominantly men. In Tioga County however, there were some women who were ...

On Oct. 15, Artsbridge will offer the community an opportunity to go back in time to see what life looked like in Hunterdon County in the nineteenth century when it features archivist and photographer ...

LOS ANGELES (voa) – The works of one of France’s leading photographers of the 19th century, Gustave Le Gray, are on display at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles. His subjects range from the monuments of ...

Imagine stretching a piece of film to reveal a hidden message. Or checking an arm band’s color to gauge muscle mass. Or sporting a swimsuit that changes hue as you do laps. Such chameleon-like, ...

Historic Royal Palaces conservators hang a portrait of Diana, Princess of Wales, taken in 1988 by photographer David Bailey and commissioned by the National Portrait Gallery. Yui Mok / PA Images via ...

Since the 19th century, photographers like Henri Cartier-Bresson and Joel Meyerowitz have been tirelessly roaming around to photograph life on the streets. Camera strapped in hand, these artists ...