Largely lost now in the history of photography, in New York City, there was a school. A school of photography, a small school. A school...

I am fascinated by photographic portraits. Our big brains devote huge amounts of resource to “reading” the faces of our fellow humans. We have an...

In 1851, Frederick Scott Archer invented the wet plate collodion process. This involves flowing a clear gel (collodion) across a glass or metal plate, sensitizing...

Part One Of An Ongoing Series In the interval between, roughly, 1830 and 1840, the earliest processes that we can reasonably consider to be photography...