“In Light of Rome” comprehensively explores the contribution made by the cosmopolitan art center to the early history of photography and traces the medium’s rise there that forever changed the way we ...

This image, taken by an unknown photographer in 1905, is an example of a cyanotype. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, William L. Schaeffer Collection A new exhibition at the crossroads of art, history ...

A new exhibition at the New Bedford Whaling Museum explores early photography from 1839 to 1900. The exhibit features over 300 portraits, including works by the area's first female photographer and a ...

On December 8, the Museum of Art opens In Light of Rome: Early Photography in the Capital of the Art World, 1842–1871. Featuring more than one hundred photographs from nearly fifty transnational ...

At the Middlebury College Museum of Art, “The Light of the Levant: Early Photography and the Late Ottoman Empire” depicts a game-changing convergence of time, place and technology. A reverse ...

Pietro Dovizielli, “Temple of Vesta” (1855), salted paper print from paper negative (courtesy the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gilman Collection, Purchase, the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift, ...

What a ruckus! What panic! And why not? Until the appearance of photography, painters had nearly a monopoly on artistic representation. Their craft was regarded as the primary means to concoct images.

A new exhibition at the crossroads of art, history and technology chronicles the beginnings of early American photography. Titled “The New Art: American Photography, 1839-1910,” the show at the ...