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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Chadd Scott covers the intersection of art and travel. Joel Sternfeld’s Domestic workers waiting for the bus, Atlanta, Georgia, ...

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 ...

Armed with a daguerreotype camera, Jules Itier landed in Guangdong in 1844, intent on documenting a defining moment in China’s trade evolution — the conclusion of the Treaty of Whampoa. But beyond ...

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 ...