For all intents and purposes, photography here in 2024 is digital. Of course chemical photography still exists, and there are a bunch of us who love it for what it is, but even as we hang up our ...

There's a legend that when the Lumiere brothers -- pioneers of motion pictures -- showed their film of an approaching train in 1896, the audience ran amok in terror ...

We tend to remember World War I, whose 100 th anniversary will be commemorated this month, in black-and-white. But there were a handful of photographers working during the war in color, using an early ...

Auguste and Louis Lumière revolutionised image-making with Autochrome, the first efficient way of producing colour photographs. [Photo/Royal Photographic Society/SSPL via Getty Images] Auguste and ...

For all intents and purposes, photography here in 2024 is digital. Of course chemical photography still exists, and there are a bunch of us who love it for what it is, but even as we hang up our ...

Around 1900, Auguste Lumiere was beginning to despair of the brother with whom he had patented the moving picture. “You’re wasting your time. You’re taking on the impossible,” he wrote to Louis about ...

It might surprise you, then, to learn that this image is part of a collection of photographs taken more than a century ago by British amateur photographer Mervyn O’Gorman featuring his daughter ...

In May 1861, James Clerk Maxwell gave the world a present tied up in a Tartan bow. The Scottish polymath photographed a colorful ribbon through red, blue and green filters then projected the three ...

Auguste and Louis Lumière never imagined in the early 1900s, when they were trying to solve a problem that had bedeviled the photographers of the black-and-white era for more than 70 years, that ...