READING, MASS. (WHDH) - One Reading High School teacher is bringing 19th-century photography to the classroom to show her students what photography was like before the invention of smartphones. “You ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jubilee singers at Fisk University, in Nashville, Tennessee, pose for promotional photograph, circa 1871. William L. Clements ...
The Larry J. West Collection features an array of early photography, (above: Untitled (pin, woman in hat) by unidentified artist, ca. 1865), presenting a stunning new visual record. L. J. West ...
Like many others, Maurene Cooper shifted her career focus during the pandemic, and she now creates one-of-a-kind Victoria era keepsakes. The Montgomery County artist launched Vanity Tintype in ...
There were two prominent types of landscape photographs in the 1860s: Civil War battlefields strewn with the dead, and sweeping vistas of the West. “Without photography, our understanding of these ...
* Social document, art form – and a window onto the spirit world… 170 years since its invention, photography remains the main technology through which we understand and record the world. Camera phones ...
Saturday afternoon, in period dress and rubber apron, with silver nitrate-stained fingers, collodion photographer Todd Harrington demonstrated the art of 19th-century wet-plate photography to visitors ...
Spirit photography was an important development within bereavement rituals of the early 1860s. The emergence of spirit photography in Boston was an exciting and highly publicized moment that continues ...