Niépce's heliograph is the earliest surviving camera-made photograph.
Early Photography
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
Have you ever wondered what it took to take a photograph in the 1800s?
Muybridge, The Attitudes of Animals in Motion
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Galton, who founded the Eugenics movement made composite portraits to validate his stereotypes.
Francis Galton, eugenics, and photography
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
Hill and Adamson spent considerable time documenting the daily life and activity of the village of Newhaven, making upwards of 130 calotypes during their visits.
David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson, Newhaven ...
Despite the medium’s infancy, Daumier’s lithograph leads the viewer to believe that 1862 Paris was teeming with photography studios.
Honoré Daumier, Nadar Elevating Photography to the ...
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
Although today Atkins’s prints are sold and viewed as art, they were originally made as botanical illustrations.
Anna Atkins and the cyanotype process
How the only copy of this landscape photograph is revolutionary
Roger Fenton, Landscape with clouds
Cameron’s evocative portrait captures her young niece… before she became the mother of a literary giant.
Julia Margaret Cameron, Mrs. Herbert Duckworth
This pioneering woman used the new medium of photography to add dramatic flair to her domestic life.
Lady Clementina Hawarden, Clementina and Florence Elizabeth ...
Daguerre’s groundbreaking technique turned Paris into a ghost town.
Louis Daguerre, Paris Boulevard or View of ...
Photography emerged as a marvel of the modern world, but its early years were marked by technological obstacles.
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