An exhibition at the National Gallery of Art captures the massive industry and the difficult tradeoffs essential to U.S.

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 ...

George Kendall Warren American, “Sam (Campus Vendor, from a Yale Class Album)” (ca. 1858), salted paper print (New York, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gilman Collection, Purchase, the Horace W.

The Smithsonian American Art Museum has acquired a collection of objects related to early American photography from the collector Larry J. West that transforms the museum’s photography holdings. The L ...

A major Dutch museum is staging a huge exhibition of American photography that explores the tension between how the United States would like to see itself, and how it really looks. By Nina Siegal ...

“There is no other expression or discipline which can express reality as directly as photography,” said Cuban photographer and cinematographer Mario García Joya during the second Colloquium of Latin ...

Astounding shots of a wounded civil war major and a flogged Black man sit amid amateur snaps and propaganda in Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum – showcasing the nation’s unrivalled mastery of the camera As the ...

Merry Foresta is nothing if not persuasive, which helps if you're a museum curator with a very good eye and you know what you want. In this case, what she wanted for the Smithsonian's National Museum ...

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