There is virtually no unit cost and little effort in taking a picture with a digital camera, but when each shot meant expense and concentrated exertion, photographers picked their subjects with care.

The history of photography has never followed a straight continuum. Since before the time of Vermeer, artists and scientists have labored at different times and in different locations around the globe ...

The calotype, familiarly explained : being a treatise on its objects and uses, and the methods of preparing the sensitive paper, and taking pictures by the agency of light / by W. Raleigh Baxter ...

The Graphic Arts division holds a scrapbook of early paper photography compiled by the British optician and amateur photographer, Richard Willats. After several years of work by many staff members, ...

Forty-seven portraits, each followed by a short biographical sketch.

Julie Stephens, a portrait photographer at Calotype Photography, recently won the People's Choice Award at the Professional Photographers of the Ozarks Spring Convention in Branson. The award was ...

In January of 1838, news reached William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877) in London that Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre (1787-1851) had announced his direct positive process to the Academy of Sciences in ...