Wilhelm Röntgen, “Hand with Rings,” a print of one of the first X-ray photographs (shows the left hand of Röntgen’s wife, Anna Bertha Ludwig) (December 22, 1895), albumen photograph (courtesy Röntgen ...
Zhuang Wubin provides a solid framework for critically exploring the region's varied histories and notable practitioners of an oft-unsung medium. The book is the first serious attempt to ...
Deborah Willis is one of the foremost authorities on Black photography. The MacArthur “genius award” winner has dedicated her ...
What do I want from a history of photography now? That’s what I was asking myself as I went through the International Center of Photography show “ICP at 50: From the Collection, 1845-2019,” the ...
Celebrate love at Getty with Queer Lens: A History of Photography, which opened Tuesday and will be on view through Sept. 28, 2025. This is the first major exhibition in the United States to survey ...
Viewing aerial imagery today is as easy as reaching into your pocket and opening your phone, but how did we get to this amazing technology? Beginning in the early 1800s, cartographers began production ...
It’s 1951. Aspen just hosted the first FIS Alpine World Ski Championships, a room at the Hotel Jerome costs $4 a night, and the ski industry is still in its infancy. According to the curator of ...
Since adolescence, the French screenwriter and director Sébastien Lifshitz has been collecting amateur snapshots discovered at flea markets. He is seduced not by evidence of lost time or vanished ...