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 ...

In modern times we take cameras for granted. Most of us carry them around in our pockets all the time and have the ability to take sharp, true-to-life photos and video any time we want and share those ...

Introduction: Whose stories are we telling? -- In and out of the studio : early professionals and amateurs -- Avant-gardes : modernity and the "new woman" -- On the street : documentary and reportage ...

Ever wondered who was the first woman to take a photograph? When the single-lens reflex camera was invented, or the year of the first aerial photograph? Is the year when Edward Weston and Ansel Adams ...

Photography after Photography: Gender, Genre, History (image courtesy Duke University Press) Abigail Solomon-Godeau’s anthology, Photography after Photography: Gender, Genre, History (Duke University ...

Frenchman Nicéphore Niépce produces first permanent photograph of a view from nature. Uses the photosensitivity of bitumen of Judea. January: Englishman William Henry Fox Talbot presents to the Royal ...

Introduction: Questions of Difference / Tanya Sheehan -- A "Geographic Fact": Photography, History, and Ireland / Justin Carville -- Richard Harrington's Guide: Universality and Locality in a Canadian ...

In his excellent biography of art curator and collector Sam Wagstaff, Philip Gefter notes how the rise of the gay rights movement in the early 1970s occurred at the same time as the growing interest ...