Niépce's heliograph is the earliest surviving camera-made photograph.
Dr. Kris Belden-Adams
Achieving clear daguerreotypes from the unprecedented process of photographing through a telescope was anything but easy.
John Whipple, William Bond, and George Bond, ...
Baldus’s Cloister of St. Trophîme, Arles aspired to use photography to make an imagined reality visible, tangible, and therefore achievable.
Édouard Baldus, Cloister of St. Trophîme, Arles
Galton, who founded the Eugenics movement made composite portraits to validate his stereotypes.
Francis Galton, eugenics, and photography
A drop of milk landing into a bowl makes an elegant crown shape, thanks to Edgerton’s stroboscope.
Harold Edgerton, Milk-Drop Coronet Splash
The title of the photograph suggests that this image of lines and dots in wavy bands represents a walking soldier. But how?
Marey, Joinville Soldier Walking
Daguerre’s The Artist’s Studio shows off his new medium’s promise—photography—as an art form.
Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre, The Artist’s Studio / Still ...
When the first eleven images of Sallie Gardner are seen in rapid succession at a speed of at least 24 frames per second, they allow us to re-experience her run.
Eadweard Muybridge, The Horse in Motion
Though this photograph could be seen as a searing social commentary, its maker preferred to view it as fine art.
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