Major exhibitions and commissions will honor Nicéphore Niépce's invention and explore photography's evolution from 1826 to ...

The world's first photograph by Joseph Niepce. Taken from a window of his Le Gras estate at Saint-Loup-de-Varennes, France, it was produced by exposing a bitumen-coated pewter plate in a camera ...

The National Portrait Gallery has acquired an image of Dolley Madison that's believed to be the first photograph of a first lady. The Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery has acquired the first ...

The first camera was invented in 1816 by Frenchman Joseph Nicéphore Niépce. In 1827, his prototype was used to take the first photograph ever, which captured the view out the window of his home at Le ...

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 ...

Every year, on August 19, we observe World Photography Day – a globally recognized celebration of the photograph and its history. What actually is World Photography Day, though, and why does it take ...

A week out from his debut photography exhibition, Yorgos Lanthimos is feeling equal nerves and excitement. The prints have emerged from his darkroom and were framed in Los Angeles, but he’s yet to lay ...