The New York Times

When the Camera Was a Weapon of Imperialism. (And When It Still Is.)

I first saw the photograph some years ago, online. Later, I tracked it down to its original source: “In Afric’s Forest and Jungle: Or Six Years Among the Yorubans,” a memoir published in 1899 by the ...

Program: The camera in the colony: Australia's oldest photographs

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

Reading high school teacher brings 19th-century photography method to classroom

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 ...
Portland Press Herald

Maine Maritime Museum spotlights work of 19th-century female photographers

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Yahoo

Norton Museum 'Veiled Presence' explores peculiar practices of 19th-century photography

A Norton Museum of Art exhibition explores the peculiar practices of 19 th-century photography studios in capturing childhood photos. Hidden adults covered in veils, crouched behind a seat or facing ...
The Gazette

Cedar Rapids inventor creates 19th century camera props for P.T. Barnum movie

CEDAR RAPIDS - Francis Lebeda is adding a little local flash to the dash of 'The Greatest Showman” - by creating a working replica of a 19th century camera, flash units, lens cap and tripod for the ...
Fast Company

A look at ‘hidden mother’ photos this Mother’s Day

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 lurk ...
Yahoo

‘Hidden mother’ photos don’t erase moms − rather, they reveal the labor and love that support the child

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 ...