The emergence of commercial photography technology in the mid-19th Century coincided with the rise of imperial control in the ...

READING, MASS. (WHDH) - One Reading High School teacher is bringing 19th-century photography to the classroom to show her students what photography was like before the invention of smartphones. “You ...

Photography was still in its infancy during the 1800s, but what the early pioneers captured with their bulky cameras and glass plates was nothing short of revolutionary. These 36 photographs aren't ...

Collectors relish so-called “hidden mother photographs” as historical oddities. These 19th-century images contain very young children held still by half-obscured adults who crouch behind chairs or ...

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 ...

The first Kodak camera was a game-changer for the art of photography. Debuting in 1888, by modern standards the Kodak was impossibly clunky: large and boxlike, it lacked a viewfinder, offering only a ...