What started as a small feminist arts collective has grown to host hundreds of residents and publish countless books under ...

Composer Melissa Dunphy discovered an unsolved murder at her home from 144 years ago. She brings her back to life with “Alice Tierney.” ...

Becharam Das Dutta, one of the few ‘pat’ artists known by name, was one of the earliest known Kalighat painters to combine ...

In the mid-19th century, photographs with ghostlike figures became collectible amusements thanks to the invention of the stereoscope – a device that created three-dimensional optical illusions.

In the middle of the 19th century ... Commercial photographers began producing this spectacular phenomenon for fun and profit and—as I have found while researching early portrait photography ...

The sign honoring 19th century sculptor Edmonia Lewis erected ... Black and Catholic woman who fought prejudices to win international fame as the foremost female American sculptor of her time ...

Join Us Published in the late 1990s, a purportedly definitive history of photography ... the groundbreaking 19th-century studio photographer Ryū Shima to the first women photojournalists in ...

Who knew what, and when, from the start of the 19th Century on, about the impact of ... loss of the natural landscape in a tiny self-portrait that depicts him sketching the scene while seated ...

Celebrating "the joy of being together ", here are group portraits – taken by photographer Neal Slavin between 1972 and 1991 ...

The abstract portrait of Alan ... built to resemble a white woman with brown eyes and a bob haircut, while its name is intended to honor Ada Lovelace. The 19th century English mathematician ...

With everything from 19th-century daguerreotypes and microphotography to pinhole-camera images and classic portraits on show, ...

Photography was invented in 1839 ... pleasure to look after is that of our early photographs. Anna Atkins, a 19th-century British botanist, published “Photographs of British Algae,” the ...