“A Democracy of Images,” open today at the American Art Museum, features 113 images that span the history of American photography, including William Eggleston’s Tricycle (Memphis), c. 1975.

The history of photography is the history of technology, so after an initial picture by an unknown maker of a “Studio Photographer at Work” (c. 1855), the first section of “The New Art ...

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The group championed “pure” photography, characterised by sharp focus, rich detail and unmanipulated imagery, as a rejection of the soft-focus pictorialism then in vogue.

Titled “ The New Art: American Photography, 1839-1910 ,” the show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City features more than 250 photographs that capture “the complexities of a nation in ...

Drones are often celebrated for their ability to capture a new vantage point on the ... 2012 overview of the history of aerial photography, published in the journal History of Photography.

The photographic carte-de-visite (or calling card) was, arguably, one of the most significant inventions in the history of photography. Patented in the late 1840s by Disdéri, who made this series ...

World Photography Day History. On August 19, 1839, the French government announced the invention of the daguerreotype process by Louis Daguerre, which is considered one of the earliest methods of ...

According to a 2015 documentary titled “The First Film,” artist Louis Le Prince shot a film on a video camera of his own invention in Leeds in 1888, two years before Edison’s invention.

NEW YORK -- A New York auction house is selling a primitive photograph that could be a much earlier work than originally believed. If so, it says, it would be one of the most important discoveries ...