"Brady routinely doctored photographs to create more compelling images". The Library of Congress Taken on 9 February 1864, Anthony Berger's photo of Lincoln was used for the president's portrait ...

Some two decades ago, the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery acquired a 19th-century album featuring ... Bache decades before the advent of photography. But until recently, the gallery ...

The Montgomery County artist launched Vanity Tintype in Fishtown in 2021, becoming the only woman in the city to produce photos using the 19th-century wet plate collodion process. She offers ...

Photography was a new technology in the ... Contemporary biases, I suggest, may hide mothers far more than did 19th-century portrait conventions. These images remind thoughtful viewers that ...

In the City of Light, she discovered the world of portrait studios ... “In the 19th century, there is an interesting dialogue between photography and painting. Many early photographers were ...

The authors of the photographs were Brandel, Beyer, Jan Mieczkowski and Maksymilian Fajans, who contributed a total of 93 shots of buildings, 41 portraits and 34 scenes from daily life. Such an ...

In the past, people relied on portrait painters ... explore how legendary women of the 19th century were portrayed, comparing artistic paintings with early photographs to reveal how beauty ideals ...

This section holds a portrait of seven notable 19th-century suffragists, as well as a famous photo of activist Sojourner Truth. There’s also a daguerreotype gallery, a small collection of some of the ...

At its upcoming sale in New York on January 24, the auction house is offering a rare double-sided portrait by 18th-century artist ... jaws dropped when we saw his photographs, and we had the ...

But as Hany Farid, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley who specialises in the analysis of digital images, has written, "We may have the impression that photography can no longer ...