A rare collection of early aviation glass lantern slides documenting Italian aviator Carlo Francesco Lombardi's long-distance ...

Pietro Dovizielli, “Temple of Vesta” (1855), salted paper print from paper negative (courtesy the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gilman Collection, Purchase, the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift, ...

Henry Pointer, "The Old Batchelor" (post-1860s) (image courtesy BG/OLOU / Alamy) We might think of the preponderance of pet photographs as a modern phenomenon, but a new exhibition at the National ...

This image, taken by an unknown photographer in 1905, is an example of a cyanotype. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, William L. Schaeffer Collection A new exhibition at the crossroads of art, history ...

Ever wondered when was photography invented? Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, a Frenchman, is the person who takes the credit for taking the world's first permanent photograph in around 1826. Interestingly, ...

Antiques shops sometimes sell them as "instant relatives," although why anyone would want more relatives is hard to fathom. The old photographs, however -- that's another story. It's easy to ...

Thanks to the invention of photography, the 19th century is the earliest point in history that we can see as it actually was. Steadily less blurry images tell a story of industrialisation and ...

That was one of the revelations a group of conservation experts from Brazil, Portugal, and the U.S. took away upon re-examining a series of what are believed to be among the oldest surviving ...

The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery announced today that it has acquired the earliest known photograph of a U.S. First Lady for its permanent collection. Likely dating from 1846, the recently ...