In the 1860s, photographer William H. Mumler claimed he could produce portraits of people together with the spirits of their dead loved ones, few doubted his word. The country was in the throes of ...

Portrait photographer Matthew Brady hired him to help in his New York studio, and then sent him to Washington, D.C. to manage a new branch. Here, Gardner focused mainly on portraiture, a ...

NEW YORK — Each word in the title of “The New Art: American Photography, 1839-1910” matters. So do the dates, especially that ...

A photographer has recaptured images taken by ... taken some of the first landscape photographs of Leicestershire from 1860 onwards. Mr Broadhead said he had used "a blend of modern and historic ...

James Osborn and Frederick Durbec’s 1860 photographs made near Charleston ... depict an anonymous Dakota woman whose portrait the photographer used on mass produced carte-de-visites, presenting ...

Photography and the Red Cross came into existence ... a collection of over 200 photos dating back to the 1860s, covering both warfare and the humanitarian action that mitigates it.

The 1860s photo technique (and the dour expressions ... themselves apart from the ubiquitous perfection of modern digital photography. Bartolotta has been making tintypes for 10 years.

Relatively cheap and quick to produce, tintypes and their sister process, ambrotypes, were the Polaroids of the 1860s. Within minutes, a photographer can create a single finished image either on ...

Scroll through our archive images that show the process of the Hannibal Bridge being built in Kansas City in the late 1860s ... s archive from that period as photography was still in its infancy.

A photographer has recaptured images taken by ... taken some of the first landscape photographs of Leicestershire from 1860 onwards. Mr Broadhead said he had used "a blend of modern and historic ...