Early photography

Alvin Langdon Coburn. Edge of the Black Country, c. 1909. Photogravure. Met

The daguerreotype, the first photographic process, was invented by Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre (1787–1851) and spread rapidly around the wo...

Gustave Le Gray (1820 – 1884) has been called "the most important French photographer of the nineteenth century" because of his technical in...

circa 1880 pb

Southworth and Hawes | Rufus Choate | The Met

When you think of old photos or historical pictures, you naturally think in terms of black and white, but as you can see from these stunning vintage photos from the turn of the 20th century, color pictures have been around for a lot longer than you think.

First photography.. in the world 1826 Nicephore Niepce, photographe français.

Paul Burty Haviland (17 June 1880–21 December 1950) was an early French-American 20th-century photographer, writer and arts critic who was closely associated with Alfred Stieglitz and the…

Most of the earliest photographs were not printed on paper, but on sheets of metal or glass. These photographs capture extraordinary details...

After the introduction of photography in the 1840s the early Victorians soon recognized the medium’s potential for portraiture. At first onl...

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Photograph by Julia Margaret Cameron, 'The Irish Immigrant' (sitter Mary Ryan), albumen print, 1865-66

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A list of the first photos of various things. These may be the earliest photos ever captured or the oldest surviving image known.