It might look like an abstract field of faded hues, but this is the oldest photograph ever taken. More accurately, it’s the first photograph from “nature” taken, as its creator Joseph Nicéphore Niépce ...

This photo shows the last stand of the rebels – a barricaded street in eastern Paris that would be attacked and overrun by the army the following day. Taken by Charles-Francois Thibault, some claim ...

The People of India, printed in 1868, was a photographic album prepared at the insistence of the Viceroy Lord Canning. Glass plate photography had been invented barely a decade earlier, but by 1860 ...