A new exhibition documents American photography's first 70 years, exploring the US during a period of immense social, ...

How One Photographer Recreated 19th Century Portraits With the Descendants of Civil War Heroes Smithsonian magazine commissioned Drew Gardner for a project that connects Black Americans today to ...

The article presents 19th-century photographic tableaux as early forms of social media – visual tools for connection, status, ...

Rare, problematic portrait of 19th-century enslaved man named Frederick sells to unknown buyer at New Orleans auction for ...

He was arguably the most artistic American landscape photographer in the 19th century. In 1862 ... pretend to be a photographer--to try to keep portrait customers happy until a real photographer ...

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 ...

ET / 11:00 am CT / 10:00 am MT / 9:00 am PT For more than a decade, photographer Shane Balkowitsch has been capturing the ...

The show includes the work of 19 contributors, most of them contemporary photographers or video artists, though there’s also a set of portraits from a 19th-century photo studio and an album of ...