By Emily MoazamiHistory Colorado Did you know that October is American Archives Month? To celebrate, History Colorado is ...

The way film photographers feel about digital photographers may be the way daguerreotype photographers feel about the film guys. Working with dangerous chemicals, buffing out silver coated plates, ...

In this new series, Remaking History, academics take a look at the ways they are recreating historical practices, and how this impacts their research today. Cased daguerreotypes are among the oldest ...

In six short, excellent videos from the George Eastman House — each about three to six minutes long — the history of film photography is told in terms of the processes behind it, from the ...

The barber had one. So did the shopkeeper, the taxidermist and the wheelwright. In 1840s America, portraiture was no longer the prerogative of the elite, laboriously painted in oil on canvas. With the ...

One of the oldest photography processes just turned 175 years old. This process was developed way before film and film emulsions and in a time when medium and large format photography ruled the world.

Ironically, the core purpose of portrait photography—inscribing identity in an “irrefutable assertion of existence,” as theorist Roland Barthes noted in Camera Lucida—is often rendered defunct by ...

Mark your calendars and time your visit to the National Portrait Gallery for the “Daguerreotypes: Five Decades of Collecting” exhibit opening on June 15th As part of its 50th anniversary, the ...

Cased daguerreotypes are among the oldest photographic images in Australian gallery, library, and museum collections. These tiny, pocket-sized photographs look quite foreign to us today. Their ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. These tiny, pocket-sized photographs look quite foreign to us today. Their mirror-like surfaces make their subjects appear ...