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 ...

Zhuang Wubin provides a solid framework for critically exploring the region's varied histories and notable practitioners of an oft-unsung medium. The book is the first serious attempt to ...

What do I want from a history of photography now? That’s what I was asking myself as I went through the International Center of Photography show “ICP at 50: From the Collection, 1845-2019,” the ...

Viewing aerial imagery today is as easy as reaching into your pocket and opening your phone, but how did we get to this amazing technology? Beginning in the early 1800s, cartographers began production ...

“The New Art: American Photography, 1839–1910,” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art through July 20th, is a big, sprawling show of work from the medium’s era of busy development, as one format improved ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. At least this is true as far as the historical material is concerned. At least this is true as far as the ...

The business of making magazines is changing. Something is rumbling below the bedrock of the glossies we’ve all loved for so long and it has a lot to do with social media platforms like Instagram and ...

The first wide-ranging exhibition and catalogue to center the contributions of queer artists within the history of photography, “Queer Lens: A History of Photography” takes a sweeping and synthetic ...

For decades, Deborah Willis has dedicated her career to unearthing, cataloging and showcasing Black photographers and photographs of Black people. The MacArthur "Genius Award" winner is the author of ...

Celebrate love at Getty with Queer Lens: A History of Photography, which opened Tuesday and will be on view through Sept. 28, 2025. This is the first major exhibition in the United States to survey ...

On August 19th, the world photography day is celebrated, a fundamental tool for the imagery record of our society. If, on the one hand, photography is the protagonist in dialogues that involve ...