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Learn more about life on the plains with the photography of Frank Sadorus.
Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Learn about the chemistry of early photographic processes.
Video: © American Chemical Society (A Britannica Publishing Partner)
A discussion of George Eastman and the museum established on his estate, from Picture...
Video: Great Museums Television (A Britannica Publishing Partner)
A brief video showing the equipment used by photographer Joe Capra to shoot photos...
Video: Joe Capra—Scientifantastic (A Britannica Publishing Partner)
Filming Alaska's black bears (Ursus americanus) in their natural habitat.
Video: Contunico © ZDF Studios GmbH, Mainz
Harry Callahan discussing his start in photography and the first time he viewed an...
Video: Checkerboard Film Foundation (A Britannica Publishing Partner)
Photographer and curator John Szarkowski discussing the photographs of Eugène Atget,...
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Images
View of the Boulevard du Temple, Paris, daguerreotype by Louis-Jacques-Mandé...
Copyright © 2008 by Dover Publications, Inc. Electronic image © 2008 Dover Publications, Inc. All rights reserved.
Illustration of the principle of the camera obscura, 1671.
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Still Life, daguerreotype by Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre, 1837; in the...
Collection de la Société Francaiçe de Photographie, Paris
Title page of the Magazine of Science showing facsimiles of photogenic drawings...
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Chief Justice Lemuel Shaw, daguerreotype by Albert Sands Southworth and...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, gift of Edward S. Hawes, Alice Mary Hawes, and Marion A. Hawes, 1938, (38.34), www.metmuseum.org
Samurai in Armour, hand-coloured albumen silver print by Kusakabe Kimbei,...
J. Paul Getty Museum (object no. 84.XA.700.4.58), digital image courtesy of the Getty's Open Content Program
Portrait of Two Men (John Henning and Alexander Handyside Ritchie), calotype...
The Art Institute of Chicago, Alfred Stieglitz Collection, reference no. 1949.685 (CC0)
Pocket stereoscope with original test image; the instrument is used by the military...
Joaquim Alves Gaspar
Uncut print from a carte-de-visite negative by André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri,...
George Eastman House Collection
Eadweard Muybridge's photographic study of a man jumping a horse, from Animal...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Rogers Fund, transferred from the Library (1991.1135.9), www. metmuseum.org
Figure Hopping, series of photographs by Eadweard Muybridge, 1887; in the...
Courtesy of the Cooper—Hewitt Museum of Decorative Arts and Design, Smithsonian Institution/Art Resource, New York
Gustave Eiffel, photographed by Nadar (Gaspard-Félix Tournachon); in the Caisse Nationale...
Courtesy of the Caisse Nationale des Monuments Historiques, Paris
Charles Baudelaire, photograph by Étienne Carjat, 1863.
Courtesy of the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris
Charles Darwin, carbon print photograph by Julia Margaret Cameron, 1868.
Courtesy of the International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House, Rochester, New York
The Mountain Nymph, Sweet Liberty, photograph by Julia Margaret Cameron,...
George Eastman House Collection
Ruins of the Gallego Flour Mills, Richmond, Va., photograph by Mathew B....
Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Purchase
Interior Hall of Columns, Karnac photograph by Francis Frith, c. 1857.
Copyright © 2008 by Dover Publications, Inc. Electronic image © 2008 Dover Publications, Inc. All rights reserved.
A Quiet Day in the Mortar Battery, photograph by Roger Fenton, 1855; in...
Courtesy of the George Eastman House, Rochester, New York
Chartres Cathedral. Right Door of the Royal Portal, West Side, XII Century,...
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Diana and Mallory Walker Fund, accession no. 2010.61.1
Tarascon, photograph by Charles Nègre, c. 1852; in the Metropolitan Museum...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; purchase, Jennifer and Joseph Duke gift and several members of the Chairman's Council Gifts, 2000 (accession no. 2000.286); www.metmuseum.org
Canyon de Chelly, Arizona, photograph by Timothy H. O'Sullivan, 1873; in...
George Eastman House Collection
Baby in a Slum Tenement, photograph by Jacob Riis, 1888–89; in the Library...
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Fading Away, composite photograph made from five negatives by Henry Peach...
George Eastman House Collection
Pond in Winter, photograph by Peter Henry Emerson, 1888; in the George Eastman...
George Eastman House Collection
The Steerage, photogravure by Alfred Stieglitz, 1907; in the Art Institute...
The Art Institute of Chicago, Alfred Stieglitz Collection, reference no. 1949.847 (CC0)
The Flatiron, photograph by Edward Steichen, 1904.
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Blind Woman, New York, photograph by Paul Strand, 1916. This photograph...
© 1971, Aperture Foundation, Inc., Paul Strand Archive
Mount Williamson—Clearing Storm, photograph by Ansel Adams, 1944.
Ansel Adams
Photographer Ansel Adams teaching Susan Ford, daughter of U.S. Pres. Gerald Ford,...
AP Images
Two Callas, About 1925, photograph by Imogen Cunningham.
Imogen Cunningham Trust. www.imogencunningham.com
Monuments, gelatin-silver cliché-verre print by Gyorgy Kepes, 1939.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York City, gift of the photographer; copy print, The Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Shop Window: Tailor Dummies, photograph by Eugène Atget, c. 1910; in the...
George Eastman House Collection
Overseer supervising a girl (about 13 years old) operating a bobbin-winding machine...
National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division (LC-DIG-nclc-02093)
Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California, photograph by Dorothea Lange, 1936;...
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (neg. no. LC-DIG-fsa-8b29516)
Jay Street, No. 115, Brooklyn, photograph by Berenice Abbott, 1936.
The New York Public Library, The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Photography Collection
Hester Street, between Allen and Orchard Streets, Manhattan, photograph...
The New York Public Library, The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Photography Collection.
Park Avenue and 39th Street, Manhattan, photograph by Berenice Abbott, 1936.
Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations
“Bijou” in Place Pigalle Bar, photograph by Brassaï, 1932.
Brassai—Rapho/Photo Researchers
Children in Seville, Spain, photograph by Henri Cartier-Bresson, 1933.
Henri Cartier-Bresson/Magnum
Spanish Village, photograph by W. Eugene Smith, 1951.
W. Eugene Smith
Barack and Michelle Obama with their daughters, Sasha (left) and Malia, in the Green...
Photo by Annie Leibovitz/Official White House Photo
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