A new exhibition documents American photography's first 70 years, exploring the US during a period of immense social, ...

Farrah Skeiky Largely forgotten today, Goodridge was one of the most important African American photographers of the 19th century, who, along with James P. Ball of Cincinnati and Augustus ...

In this case, what she wanted for the Smithsonian's National Museum of American Art (NMAA) was a photography collection that she knew might not even exist. It had to be strong in 19th-century ...

All were abolitionists. Smithsonian American Art Museum. Larry West, a retired executive now living in Washington, D.C., developed an interest in 19th-century daguerreotypes in the mid-1970s. He ...

Photography became a part of public life in the mid-19th century, especially during the Civil War, when photographers documented American battlefields for the first time. Experimenting with ways ...

Rare, problematic portrait of 19th-century enslaved man named Frederick sells to unknown buyer at New Orleans auction for ...

ET / 11:00 am CT / 10:00 am MT / 9:00 am PT For more than a decade, photographer Shane Balkowitsch has been capturing the ...

The Mattatuck Museum will present "The Art of Leisure" on Sunday through July 6 in its Noonan Gallery. Spanning more than 125 years of American history, this exhibition explores how artists have ...