Henry Pointer, "The Old Batchelor" (post-1860s) (image courtesy BG/OLOU / Alamy) We might think of the preponderance of pet photographs as a modern phenomenon, but a new exhibition at the National ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: This article was originally published by The Art Newspaper, an editorial partner of CNN Style. The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery (NPG) in Washington, DC, has acquired the ...

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 ...

This image, taken by an unknown photographer in 1905, is an example of a cyanotype. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, William L. Schaeffer Collection A new exhibition at the crossroads of art, history ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by The Art Newspaper, an editorial partner of CNN Style. The Smithsonian’s ...

The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery announced today that it has acquired the earliest known photograph of a U.S. First Lady for its permanent collection. Likely dating from 1846, the recently ...