Drones are often celebrated for their ability to capture a new vantage point on the world, revealing the beauty of our planet ...

Wilhelm Röntgen, “Hand with Rings,” a print of one of the first X-ray photographs (shows the left hand of Röntgen’s wife, Anna Bertha Ludwig) (December 22, 1895), albumen photograph (courtesy Röntgen ...

In modern times we take cameras for granted. Most of us carry them around in our pockets all the time and have the ability to take sharp, true-to-life photos and video any time we want and share those ...

Photography after Photography: Gender, Genre, History (image courtesy Duke University Press) Abigail Solomon-Godeau’s anthology, Photography after Photography: Gender, Genre, History (Duke University ...

On August 19th, the world photography day is celebrated, a fundamental tool for the imagery record of our society. If, on the one hand, photography is the protagonist in dialogues that involve ...

Courtesy of the Oregon Historical Society, CN000266 Britt was born in Switzerland on March 12, 1819. Like thousands of others, he made his way to the American West during the Gold Rush, eventually ...

Introduction: Questions of Difference / Tanya Sheehan -- A "Geographic Fact": Photography, History, and Ireland / Justin Carville -- Richard Harrington's Guide: Universality and Locality in a Canadian ...

Frenchman Nicéphore Niépce produces first permanent photograph of a view from nature. Uses the photosensitivity of bitumen of Judea. January: Englishman William Henry Fox Talbot presents to the Royal ...

In his excellent biography of art curator and collector Sam Wagstaff, Philip Gefter notes how the rise of the gay rights movement in the early 1970s occurred at the same time as the growing interest ...