A new exhibition at the crossroads of art, history and technology chronicles the beginnings of early American photography.

Organized chronologically and by theme, “The Eye of the Sun” travels from 1840s work by William Henry Fox Talbot, an inventor and early photography pioneer, through to pictures taken by Kodak ...

The “Photography and Discovery” show at the Clark Art Institute, in Williamstown, Massachusetts, is small (around thirty photographs, mostly pre-1900, all from the Clark’s own amazing ...

Twenty-five years ago American museums, when they heeded at all the artistry of early-19th-century photographers, often did so only to note the camera had been a secret drawing tool for Realist ...

But because photography was in its infancy of invention and normalization into society, the early forms of image capturing ...

And it turns out early photography is particularly well-suited to creating hair-raising images, given the need for long exposures at the inception of the technology that offer many opportunities ...

‘Power and Perspective: Early Photography in China,’ at the Peabody Essex Museum, looks at the relationship between documentation and domination. SALEM — The first thing a museum-goer sees ...

The Tennessee State Museum unveils its "Photography in Tennessee" exhibit, covering the medium's first century in the state.

Organized chronologically and by theme, “The Eye of the Sun” travels from 1840s work by William Henry Fox Talbot, an inventor and early photography pioneer, through to pictures taken by Kodak ...