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 ...

A Colorado luminary, photographer Fred Payne Clatworthy’s mastery of the autochrome process brought Colorado’s beauty to audiences throughout the United States in the early 1900s. Clatworthy was the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jonathon Keats is a writer and artist who critiques museum exhibits. Traveling through Europe in 1907, the pioneering American ...

Laura Gilpin (1891-1979). "Woman in black and white striped skirt seated in chair." 1979 Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, Bequest of the artist Laura Gilpin (1891- 1979). "Basket of peaches," c.

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 ...