“A Democracy of Images,” open today at the American Art Museum, features 113 images that span the history of American photography, including William Eggleston’s Tricycle (Memphis), c. 1975. All photos ...

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 ...

The Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC, has purchased a groundbreaking collection of images by some of history’s earliest Black photographers. Pictures from the first African ...

George Kendall Warren American, “Sam (Campus Vendor, from a Yale Class Album)” (ca. 1858), salted paper print (New York, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gilman Collection, Purchase, the Horace W.

Art Surveying Surveys of New American Sculpture and Photography Concurrent surveys of new American art in two specific media — New American Sculpture at FiveMyles and Under Construction – New ...

The Smithsonian American Art Museum has acquired a collection of objects related to early American photography from the collector Larry J. West that transforms the museum’s photography holdings. The L ...

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All great American photographs have one thing in common: power lines. This is not, strictly speaking, true. But it often feels true, especially when you look at street photography. Electricity tends ...

A new exhibition at the crossroads of art, history and technology chronicles the beginnings of early American photography. Titled “The New Art: American Photography, 1839-1910,” the show at the ...