If you're planning to photograph the upcoming solar eclipse, you may want to thank the guy who did it first -- in 1851. Photography was in its infancy in 1851, and the most common technique at the ...
It was taken in 1857, when the Capitol was still under construction The 1850s were a significant period of growth in the history of photography. The wet collodion process, which was invented in 1851, ...
Inauguration of James Buchanan, President of the United States, at the east front of the U. S. Capitol, March 4, 1857 (photo via Library of Congress, Manuscript Division, Montgomery Meigs Papers) The ...
Today, Bowdoin College is set to show off an incredibly rare acquisition—a vintage photograph of Abraham Lincoln’s inauguration from 1861. The image, one of only three known to exist, shows a large ...
William Mumler couldn’t explain it. He was having his first go at the photographic process, when a self-portrait he had taken developed to reveal a mysterious apparition of a girl by his side. Mumler ...
On 23 August 1966, NASA captured the first photograph of the Earth as seen from a lunar orbit by its unmanned Lunar Orbiter 1 probe. This spacecraft had been launched on 10 August 1966 with a very ...
A black hole is a cosmic abyss with gravity of such intensity that nothing, not even light, escapes it. Now, for the first time, a team of astronomers has released an image of the space anomaly, which ...
ROME — The Vatican on Sunday released the first photograph of pope in more than a month, showing Pope Francis wearing purple Lenten liturgical vestments sitting in a wheelchair in front of an altar in ...
After teasing a new "small movie," Zack Snyder seems to be officially stepping away from explosions and films oversaturated ...
Propped up in a darkened room and illuminated at an oblique angle, the flat rectangle of pewter reluctantly reveals the scene it has faithfully held for 176 years. “You have to dance around it to get ...
After years of leaning hard into fantasy, sci-fi, and larger-than-life spectacle, Zack Snyder is heading somewhere very ...
ROME — The Vatican on Sunday released the first photograph of pope in more than a month, showing Pope Francis wearing a purple Lenten liturgical vestments sitting in a wheelchair in front of an altar ...