A pioneering photography collection, now housed in the Smithsonian Institution Archives, captures how early innovations in microphotography helped shape our understanding of snowflakes. Wilson Bentley ...

The relationship between photography and modern medicine is akin to siblings: emerging almost simultaneously in the 19th century, they grew and evolved together, and today, they are more inseparable ...

Capturing the first underwater color photographs was no mean feat and involved powerful explosives as well as hours and hours of waiting.

Orca Channel photographer Krisztina Balotay captured some of the first-ever images of a killer whale birth while on a ...

At the Middlebury College Museum of Art, “The Light of the Levant: Early Photography and the Late Ottoman Empire” depicts a game-changing convergence of time, place and technology. A reverse ...

ANTHREF copy 39088010703403 has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Purchased from the Lloyd and Charlotte Wineland Library Endowment for Native American and Western Exploration Literature.

Julia Margaret Cameron (1815–1879) was photography’s first widely recognized artist, making images in a signature soft focus style that remains captivating to this day. Before it was an art, ...

The Tennessee State Museum’s latest temporary exhibition, "Photography in Tennessee: Early Studios and the Medium’s First Century," opens June 10. The show explores the origins and impact of ...

One of the first photographs on display in Photography in Tennessee, on view through Nov. 9 at the Tennessee State Museum, is a portrait of a little girl named Lucy. She’s about 9 in the ambrotype, ...

Early photography lacked the convenience of the stable roll film we all know, and instead relied on a set of processes which the photographer would have to master from film to final print.

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 ...