Sharing my favorite images from the early days of photography… Title: Seal Rocks Date: 1868–69, printed ca. 1876 Location: California, U.S. Photographer: Carleton E. Watkins (18… Read More
Sharing my favorite images from the early days of photography… Title: View of Darjeeling and Himalayas Date: 1860s-1870s Location: India Photographer: unknown Process: albumen silver… Read More
Sharing my favorite images from the early days of photography… Title: [Peasant Woman with Winnowing Basket] Date: late 1870s Location: France Photographer: unknown Process: albumen si… Read More
Sharing my favorite images from the early days of photography… Title: Crater of Volcano, Quetzaltenango-Guatemala Date: 1875 Location: Guatemala Photographer: Eadweard Muybridge (1830… Read More
Sharing my favorite images from the early days of photography… Title: The Foundry Date: 1870s-1880s Location: France Photographer: Louis Lafon (active 1870s-1890s) Process: albumen si… Read More
Sharing my favorite images from the early days of photography… Title: Canal St. Martin Date: 1860 Location: France Photographer: Franck (1816–1906) Process: albumen silver print… Read More
Sharing my favorite images from the early days of photography… Title: The Lesson Date: 1856 Photographer: William G. Campbell (active in the 1850s) Process: albumen silver print… Read More
Sharing my favorite images from the early days of photography… Title: The Manirung Pass Date: 1866 Location: India Photographer: Samuel Bourne (1834-1912) Process: albumen silver prin… Read More
Sharing my favorite images from the early days of photography… Title: South Dome, 6,000 feet Date: ca. 1872, printed ca. 1876 Location: U.S. Photographer: Carleton E. Watkins (1829-19… Read More
Sharing my favorite images from the early days of photography… Title: [White dog with its chin on a cushion] Date: 1865–1875 Photographer: unknown Process: albumen silver print… Read More
The Victorian and Edwardian eras, which saw tremendous industrialization, technological development, and social transformation, are known as the two of the most revolutionary times in Britis… Read More
Sharing my favorite images from the early days of photography… Title: Chamonix, Mer de Glace d’Aignuille du Dru Date: ca. 1860s Location: France Photographer: Francis Frith (182… Read More
Sharing my favorite images from the early days of photography… Title: Sir John Herschel Date: April 1867 Location: France Photographer: Julia Margaret Cameron (1815–1879) Proces… Read More
Sharing my favorite images from the early days of photography… Title: Passage of the Dalles, Oregon Date: 1867, printed ca. 1876 Location: U.S. Photographer: Carleton E. Watkins (1829… Read More
Sharing my favorite images from the early days of photography… Title: Looking South Into The Grand Canon, Colorado River Date: 1872 Location: U.S. Photographer: William Abraham Bell (… Read More
Sharing my favorite images from the early days of photography… Title: Watersmeet, The Cottage and Streams Location: Devon, England Date: 1860-1870 Photographer: Francis Bedford (1815/… Read More
Sharing my favorite images from the early days of photography… Title: Boston, as the Eagle and the Wild Goose See It Date: 1860 Photographer: James Wallace Black (1825-1896) Process:… Read More
Sharing my favorite images from the early days of photography… Title: Night View of the Grand Canal, Venice Date: ca. 1875 Location: Italy Photographer: Carlo Naya (1816–1882) P… Read More
Sharing my favorite images from the early days of photography… Title: Piazza San Marco, Venice Date: ca. 1870 Location: Italy Photographer: Antonio Perini (1830-1879) Process: albumen… Read More
Sharing my favorite images from the early days of photography… Title: A Study (Alternative title: After Perugino / The Annunciation) Date: 1865-1866 Photographer: Julia Margaret Camer… Read More
For Madhavan Pillai, the best part about a photograph is what lies behind the aesthetic laminate. The Tamil Nadu-born researcher and photographer has always been an avid lover of ancient pho… Read More
Sharing my favorite images from the early days of photography… Title: Samurai, Yokohama Date: 1864-1865 Location: Japan Photographer: Felice Beato (1832-1909) Process: albumen silver… Read More
Sharing my favorite images from the early days of photography… Title: Antigua de Guatemala Date: 1875, published 1877 Photographer: Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904) Process: albumen sil… Read More
Sharing my favorite images from the early days of photography… Title: The Valley of the Anio, with the Upper and Lower Cascatelle, Mecenas’s Villa, and Distant Campagna Date: by… Read More
Sharing my favorite images from the early days of photography… Title: Rue de Glatigny Date: ca. 1877 Location: Paris, France Photographer: Charles Marville (1813-1879) Process: p… Read More
During the 1840s and 1850s, slaveholders began commissioning photographic portraits of enslaved people. Most images portrayed well-dressed subjects and drew upon portraiture conventions of t… Read More
A new exhibition called ‘Winslow Homer and the Camera: Photography and the Art of Painting’ opens this Saturday at Bowdoin College in Maine.The show and the associated catalog ex… Read More
The daguerreotype, the first photographic process, was invented by Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre (1787–1851) and spread rapidly around the world after its presentation to the pub… Read More
Perhaps it's a sign of the times, but there's been a societal trend of late for examining the experience of childhood. Whether looking at photographs taken recently, or at those from five de… Read More
JTF (just the facts): A total of 259 black and white photographs, generally framed in brown wood and matted or displayed in glass cases, and hung against grey walls with loose sack… Read More