Art
Pompeii Before the Point-and-Shoot: The Earliest Photographs of Italy
The first photographic images seen in Italy were botanical prints by Henry Fox Talbot, beginning three decades of experimentation with photography in 19th-century Italy.
Photography
Art
Overlooked 19th-Century Landscape Photos from East of the Mississippi
An exhibition at the National Gallery of Art highlights the environmental and artistic influence of 19th-century landscape photography in the eastern United States.
Books
The Unflinching Sensuality of Ren Hang's Photographs
The young artist, who died last month at age 29, is the subject of a new monograph from TASCHEN.
Books
A Photographer’s 16-Year Project to Capture the Contemporary Séance
Shannon Taggart started photographing the mediums of Lily Dale in 2001, and for 16 years after has documented the séances and practices of modern Spiritualism.
Books
360-Degree Panoramas of Grand American Libraries
Thomas R. Schiff's photographs capture the American library as it transformed from a members-only space into a public institution.
Art
The Private Lives of Primate Companions
Images from Robin Schwartz's rarely exhibited series of photos of primates who live with humans is on view at Staten Island's Alice Austen House.
Books
The Psychedelic Pollution Floating in the Gowanus Canal
Steven Hirsch's photographs capture unexpected beauty in one of America's most polluted waterways.
Art
The Loneliness of Luis Barragán's Domestic Spaces
James Casebere's latest photographs show the modernist homes of Luis Barragán alluringly yet threateningly devoid of people or any signs of human habitation.
Books
Photographing Palm Springs Modernism by Moonlight
Tom Blachford's photographs in Midnight Modern were taken between midnight and 5am in Palm Springs, illuminated only by the moon.
News
An Online Catalogue for All 25,000 of William Henry Fox Talbot's Photographs
The Bodleian Libraries at the University of Oxford launched the first complete, digital catalogue for 19th-century photography pioneer William Henry Fox Talbot.
Art
Why Victorian Men Had Glorious Beards
The Age of the Beard at the Florence Nightingale Museum in London examines through photographs the Victorian mania for elaborate facial hair.
Art
The Black Cowboys Whitewashed from American History
The photographs and videos in Black Cowboy at the Studio Museum show images of nonwhite cowboys, bringing Americana in line with historical accuracy.