Among his pupils is noted photographer Matthew Brady. August: Noted French scientist Francois Arago, with Daguerre, announces the details of the first commercially practical photographic process ...

And people pushing the boundaries of night photography is a story almost as old as the camera itself. Nicéphore Niépce produced the first permanent photograph in around 1822, using a process ...

This ELN issue looks back to the earliest photographic experiments and their initial introductions of text from 1843, as it looks forward to the most recent innovations that may well render the term ...

Magic, art or science? Film photography blurs the lines between these categories and creates permanent images from nothing ...

Discovering the trick of panning to stop motion was one of the most thrilling stages of his early photography, Jim Richardson says. Get his pro tips. 7 min read Contributing editor Jim Richardson ...

English botanical artist, collector and photographer Anna Atkins was the first person to illustrate a book with photographic images. Her nineteenth-century cyanotypes used light exposure and a simple ...

Karla McManus, explores the history of bird photography and discusses its lessons, including the evolving technology of ...

One of the world's first set of travel photographs is up for auction and it's expected to fetch up to $20,000 (£15,096). The images — which are widely considered to mark the birth of travel ...