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.

Farrah Skeiky Largely forgotten today, Goodridge was one of the most important African American photographers of the 19th century, who, along with James P. Ball of Cincinnati and Augustus ...

Hogg’s work stretched from the days of Victorian horse-drawn ambulances to the arrival of motor cars and aircraft ...

Shooting huge large-format negatives in the style of a 19th-century photographer can return astounding pictures with detail and lens effects unavailable on relatively tiny cameras, but it’s ...

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 ...

Janette Rosing was an antiquarian, art and photograph collector. She began her collection of 19th century photographs in the 1980s after her obsession was kickstarted by stumbling upon an image of ...

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 ...

But by the time photography became popular in America in the mid-19th century and photographers and researchers armed with cameras began appearing in Amish communities, most Amish objected to ...

BACK TO YOU. VOGUE. WHEN TINTYPE PHOTOGRAPHY WAS FIRST INTRODUCED TO THE MASS MARKET, IT TOOK ABOUT 10 TO 15 MINUTES TO MAKE JUST ONE IMAGE. STIL These 19th century activities are making a ...