The Maillets began buying daguerreotypes in the 1960s and their 200-strong collection spans the full history and evolution of ...

What Frederick Douglass called “the age of pictures” began in 1839, when the Frenchman Louis Daguerre’s photographic process, the daguerreotype, came to the United States. Americans were fascinated by ...

Among a collection of daguerreotypes for sale at Christie’s is one made by Samuel F.B. Morse, the inventor of the telegraph, who briefly ran a portrait studio in New York City.

In 1826 or 1827, French inventor Joseph Nicéphore Niépce made history when he took the world's first photograph from the window of his estate in Burgundy. Niépce had been trying to capture images of ...

Le Paris d'Agnès Varda, de-ci de-là also deals with themes emblematic of the artist, such as her view of women and the ...

Nationals mark the end of the season for the senior racers. Nicole Kukulka, Jillian Daguerre and Chantal Kukulka proudly ...

A lithographer by trade, Lion had traveled to Paris in 1839, the very year that Louis Daguerre unveiled his revolutionary photographic process known as the Daguerreotype. Lion became an acolyte of ...

Named for French inventor Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre, the daguerreotype was the world's first successful form of photography — and it captured historic images of everyone from Abraham Lincoln to ...

Nationals mark the end of the season for the senior racers. Nicole Kukulka, Jillian Daguerre and Chantal Kukulka proudly represented Timmins and The Porcupine Ski Runners at the event that saw 802 ...

At nearly 80, the former Member of the European Parliament looks back on his career and his Jewishness, on the occasion of the publication of his autobiography.

We remember one from the Eighties when Olympus (now OM System) claimed that photography had been first discovered by a Japanese monk in the 18th Century, over a hundred years before Daguerre and Fox ...

(NEXSTAR) – A painting hanging in a French family’s living room turned out to be far more valuable than just another trinket or heirloom. An auctioneer doing inventory on the family property ...