Glenview, a mansion built by millionaire Wall Street banker John Bond Trevor in 1877, appears as Mrs. Astor's house in HBO's ...

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

Before there were DMs or selfies, there were watercolour self-portraits, and an American artist boldly used one to send a ...

Some two decades ago, the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery acquired a 19th-century album featuring 2,000 paper portrait silhouettes, including those of George Washington and Thomas ...

It's the last chance to get 25% off tickets to our Festival of Photography: Documentary on August 9th, a celebration of ...

Ever since the invention of the microscope, humanity has gained access to the world of the incredibly small. Scientists discovered that creatures never known to exist before are alive in an uncount… ...

A rare 1931 oil portrait of Mahatma Gandhi by Clare Leighton sold for £152,800 at Bonhams’ Travel and Exploration Sale, ...

Rare, problematic portrait of 19th-century enslaved man named Frederick sells to unknown buyer at New Orleans auction for half million dollars ...

A painting found in an abandoned California storage locker is a rare double-sided portrait by revered American painter Ammi Phillips.

The article presents 19th-century photographic tableaux as early forms of social media – visual tools for connection, status, and memory. Through examples like Mickiewicz and Sienkiewicz, it draws ...

Their studios were up and running just a few years after Mathew Brady, the best-known American photographer of the 19th century, had opened his first portrait studio, in New York City in 1844.

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 ...