Photographs from 1860s provide rare glimpse of bridge that propelled Kansas ... It’s rare to have so many photographs in The Star’s archive from that period as photography was still in its ...

Emily White heats up a tintype before she varnishes it, the final step in the 1860s-era photographic process. She said the approach offers something modern digital photography can’t.

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 ...

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 ...

Historic photos from the 1860s show the construction of the big KC bridge, named after MO’s Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad Company.

Vince Aletti on “The New Art: American Photography, 1839-1910,” a sprawling exhibit at the Met that charts the medium’s era of busy development.