Rutherfurd’s Moon images are beautiful, but they also marked an important leap forward for scientific imaging through their ...

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

Among a collection of daguerreotypes for sale at Christie’s is one made by Samuel F.B. Morse, the inventor of the telegraph, ...

What Frederick Douglass called “the age of pictures” began in 1839, when the Frenchman Louis Daguerre’s photographic process, ...

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 ...

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.

(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 ...

Alice Gibbs is a Newsweek Senior Internet Trends & Culture Reporter based in the U.K. For the last two years she has specialized in viral trends and internet news, with a particular focus on ...

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 ...