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

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 ...

Patented in the late 1840s by Disdéri, who made this series of images, the "cdv" became the first truly popular form of photography, transforming one’s portrait into a portable, shareable and ...

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

Roger Hargreaves will give a talk on "The Social Context of 19th Century Portrait Photography" Thursday night at Auburn University's Jules Collins Smith Museum of Fine Arts. The free event begins ...

19th century photography 1 Articles . A Forgotten Photographic Process Characterised. April 1, 2025 by Jenny List 3 Comments . Early photography lacked the convenience of the stable roll film we ...

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.

There have been countless retrospectives of portraitist John Singer Sargent, but now the 19th century painter is being shown in a brand new light.

A Portrait of 19th-Century Creole Culture. In an unfinished painting, the artist Andrew LaMar Hopkins depicts an interracial couple in 1830s Alabama. Share full article.

10 thoughts on “ 19th Century Photography In Extreme Miniature ” NerdWorld says: June 29, 2025 at 7:35 am Make a microphotograph on silicon. Add some acid. Boom ...