A new exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery traces three different 1800s forms of photo-making: daguerreotypes, ...

Capturing a 21st-Century War With 19th-Century Technology Edward Kaprov’s wet-plate technique is producing some of the most memorable and timeless photographs of the war in Ukraine close up.

In “Flashes of Brilliance,” Anika Burgess takes us back to the 19th century to showcase the artists and innovators who developed the revolutionary technology.

The dominant perception of early photography from West Africa is that it was taken through a colonizing lens. Of Europeans in the mid-19th century spreading through the arteries of the region, new ...

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 ...

Tintype photography was largely replaced by other methods by the early 20th century, Portesi notes, but it’s enjoyed renewed interest in more recent years, as have other older photographic techniques, ...

Wet collodion is a 19th century-era photography process that requires photographic material to be coated, sensitized, exposed, and developed within the span of about fifteen minutes.

A workshop organized jointly by the chemistry and art departments spotlights how chemical methods enabled the development of modern photography.

Maine Maritime Museum spotlights work of 19th-century female photographers This exhibit comes at a time when the museum's curatorial team is solely made up of women for the first time in its 60 years.

There are multiple formats of portraits of abolitionist Frederick Douglass, who is considered the most photographed American of the 19th century and sat for four Black photographers in his lifetime.

Maine Maritime Museum in Bath will show photographs from the late 19th and early 20th century by Emma Sewall, Josephine Ginn Banks and Abbie F. Minott, beginning Friday.