A pioneering photography collection, now housed in the Smithsonian Institution Archives, captures how early innovations in microphotography helped shape our understanding of snowflakes. Wilson Bentley ...

A photograph is a photograph, right? It's pretty hard to mistake it for anything else. In fact, there is an amazing variety of photographs and many are the collectors who specialize in one type or ...

The Smithsonian American Art Museum has acquired a collection of objects related to early American photography from the collector Larry J. West that transforms the museum’s photography holdings. The L ...

The Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) in Washington, D.C. has acquired a trove of early photographs that will help expand the narrative of the medium’s origins. Included are portraits of ...

In 1986, Magi Haroun began her career in football photography. She would become the first female photographer in the Premier League in the 1990s. She grew up with close connections to Manchester ...

The Tennessee State Museum’s latest temporary exhibition, "Photography in Tennessee: Early Studios and the Medium’s First Century," opens June 10. The show explores the origins and impact of ...

The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery announced today that it has acquired the earliest known photograph of a U.S. First Lady for its permanent collection. Likely dating from 1846, the recently ...

The relationship between photography and modern medicine is akin to siblings: emerging almost simultaneously in the 19th century, they grew and evolved together, and today, they are more inseparable ...