Civilizations from Stone Age Scotland to the eighth-century Maya to 13th-century African empires have used dry stone walling ...

Glass dry plates were widely used at photo studios in town at the time. The images are presumed to have been taken by Yokohama-based photographer Yoshinosuke Nishino (1881-1952).

Vince Aletti on “The New Art: American Photography, 1839-1910,” a sprawling exhibit at the Met that charts the medium’s era of busy development.

DR. HENRY DRAPER, in 1872, was the first to photograph the lines of a stellar spectrum. His investigation, pursued for many years with great skill and ingenuity, was most unfortunately interrupted ...

Astronomical photography only took off as a scientific medium with the invention of dry plate photography in the 1880s. But Rutherfurd laid its foundation; the tools he built through meticulous ...

The research of Karla McManus, Associate Professor at the University of Regina, explores the history of bird photography and discusses its lessons, including the evolving technology of photography and ...

Shane Balkowitsch is a photographer based out of Bismarck, N.D., though he is no ordinary photographer. He is a wet plate artist meaning his photo process dates back to the mid-1800s. In fact he is ...

The Stanley Hotel was born with its founder Freelan Oscar Stanley near death. In 1903, the 54-year-old inventor of dry plate photography and the Stanley steam engine was diagnosed with tuberculosis.

On that same day, Eastman also registered the trademark for the name Kodak, a word now synonymous with photography. A.S.Ganesh pictures Eastman’s life and how he revolutionised photography… ...

Alfred Henrie Elliott (1870-1954) was a keen amateur photographer whose significant body of work, donated to the city of Brisbane, has been housed at the Museum of Brisbane (MoB) since 1983. Preserved ...