During the war, the Thuilliers’ yard became a makeshift studio. Eventually, they painted a backdrop featuring classical ...

Created in 1855 the photos in the series are considered to be some of the earliest photographs depicting war. According to the auction house, this may be the first time that a print has appeared at ...

And, in 1857, the first known photograph of a Presidential Inauguration was captured. This image, seen above, was taken by John Wood, who worked for the Architect of the Capitol under Montgomery C ...

For its second survey of photography, the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia is presenting nearly 250 early photographs—most of which have never been exhibited before—created by British and ...

The few historians to take an interest in the prehistory of war photography seem agreed that the earliest footage secured in a war zone dates to the Greco-Turkish War of 1897, and was shot by a ...

World War I is behind us, and with it, the first-person verification of what occurred. But the photographs — nay, the memories — remain. Vaughn Wallace is the producer of LightBox.

The first photographs that exist of the Holy Land are also from the same technique, he added. Born and raised in the Soviet Union, Kaprov moved to Israel 30 years ago, where he embarked on a ...

When Catherine Leroy was attending convent school in the 1960s, she longed to run away. The French teenager made her first escapes by sneaking off to smoky Paris jazz clubs. But all along she knew ...

The first intersection of war and photography came in the late 1840s, when men on their way to the Mexican-American War stopped in frontier towns to have portraits made.