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Oct 15, 2021

This Photo from 1840 is One of the Earliest Portraits Taken in America

Sep 27, 2021

This Was ‘Instagram vs Reality’ in 1909

Sep 22, 2021

The 10 Hottest 35mm Cameras You Could Buy in 1991

Sep 08, 2021

Last Tasmanian Tiger Seen in Newly Colorized 1933 Footage

Sep 07, 2021

Spider-Man’s Cameras: A Look at What Peter Parker Shoots With

Sep 03, 2021

Photo Series Documents 51 Years of The World Trade Center Site

Aug 31, 2021

Hulking Attachment Gave Canon FD Lens Autofocus 40 Years Ago

Aug 18, 2021

Smithsonian Buys Rare Photos From First African American Studios

Jul 30, 2021

‘Preventable’ Fire Engulfs Major Brazilian Cinema Film History Archive

Jul 26, 2021

Victorian Influencers ‘Facetuned’ Photos Long Before Instagram

Jun 30, 2021

This Photo Shows the First 3 Licensed Women Doctors of Their Countries

Jun 28, 2021

Historic Australian Photo Print Archive to be Auctioned Along with NFTs

Jun 23, 2021

The Crazy Inventions of Two Wildlife Photography Pioneers

May 29, 2021

The Photographer Who Fought Nazis with Her Camera

May 28, 2021

Forensic Analysis of a 1965 Photo to Learn Where and How It Was Shot

May 25, 2021

Photographer Discovers Undeveloped Film Inside 1920s Kodak Camera

May 18, 2021

The Controversial History of Colorizing Black-and-White Photos

May 11, 2021

This ‘Photo’ Imagines What George Washington Would Look Like Today

May 08, 2021

A Brief History of Ground Glass Focusing Loupes

Apr 29, 2021

NASA Astronaut Who Captured All of Humanity in a Single Photo Has Died

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Judge Rules Images of Enslaved Are Property of Harvard, Not Descendant

Mar 15, 2021

Leica First Invented Autofocus but Didn’t See Its Value

Apr 15, 2011

What a 14fps Canon SLR Looked Like Back in 1984

Oct 20, 2011

The Uncropped Versions of Iconic Photos

Jun 12, 2012

“How Unprofessional Can It Really Be?”: Eisenstaedt’s Self-Portraits with Icons

Oct 16, 2012

This Zoomable Composite Aerial Photo of San Francisco is Like a 1938 Google Earth

Jun 06, 2013

A Look at How Michael Paul Smith Creates Historical Photos with Incredibly Detailed Models

Feb 02, 2015

No Filter: This ‘Vintage’ Photo Was Shot with a Phone and Binoculars

Jul 06, 2015

Keith Olbermann Was the Photographer Behind Bad Photos on 1981 Baseball Cards

Jan 25, 2016

Even Ansel Adams Had to Advertise His Photo Business

Jul 01, 2017

Rare Photos of Hitler from Glass Plates by His Personal Photographer

Apr 23, 2019

The Photographer Who Fought Nazis with Her Camera

May 29, 2021

Color Photography Turns 150 Years Old

May 17, 2011

What 5MB of Storage Looked Like in 1956

Dec 27, 2011

Silly Photographs of Dressed-Up Bulldogs from 1905

Aug 08, 2012

Iconic Photo: Watching Bwana Devil in 3D at the Paramount Theater

Dec 01, 2012

Why Didn’t People Smile in Old Photos?

Sep 23, 2013

Grandma Sells Trove of Rare Civil War-Era Photos to the Library of Congress

Mar 30, 2015

Here’s a Look at How Color Film was Originally Biased Toward White People

Sep 19, 2015

10 Colorized Vintage Photos of Famous Landmarks Being Built

Apr 07, 2016

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