The first person to take both aerial and subterranean photographs, Nadar was a pioneer of both hot-air ballooning and ...

Sorry Paris Hilton and Britney Spears — it turns out, you didn't "invent" the selfie. With a sultry gaze and disheveled hair, the self-portrait of 19th-century Philadelphian photographer Robert ...

We asked our staff photographers to talk about the assignments that brought out their best work in 2025. Here are Andrew ...

For decades, World Photography Day has celebrated how a picture can often convey more than words ever could. First observed on Aug 19, 1991, the day commemorates the invention of the daguerreotype, a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Today we think nothing of taking a photograph. Devices that fit in the palm of a hand now allow much of the world’s population to snap a picture. By some estimates, almost 5 billion photos are taken ...