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 ...

Thanks to the invention of photography, the 19th century is the earliest point in history that we can see as it actually was. Steadily less blurry images tell a story of industrialisation and ...

Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by The Art Newspaper, an editorial partner of CNN Style. The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery (NPG) in Washington, DC, has acquired the ...

Photography has come a long way since the first ever photo saw the light of day. We've gone from painstakingly exposing metal plates for hours at a time, to snapping high-definition selfies in the ...

This image, taken by an unknown photographer in 1905, is an example of a cyanotype. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, William L. Schaeffer Collection A new exhibition at the crossroads of art, history ...

The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery (NPG) in Washington, DC, has acquired the earliest known photograph of a US first lady. The quarter-plate daguerreotype of former First Lady Dolley Madison, ...