Social Impact and Iconic Images (1910s-1930s) Something changed about photography in the early 1900s. It left the studio. For decades,…
Breaking Barriers in Photography In the 1870s, photography was an intricate and demanding pursuit, accessible only to those with both…
The Wet Plate Era: Collodion Process and Ambrotypes (1850s-1880s) There is something quietly radical about the idea that ordinary people,…
How German Expressionism, Soviet Montage, and Italian Neorealism reshaped the language of film Introduction: When Cinema Became a Mirror By…
Wax Cylinders: The Early Days Thomas Edison's phonograph, patented in 1878, and Alexander Graham Bell's graphophone kicked off sound recording…
The Era of Daguerreotypes Changing Perceptions How Early Photography Altered the Way People Viewed Themselves—and the World When early photography…
When Sound Learned to Haunt: The Rise (and Fall) of the Phonograph Cylinder We live in a world where music…
Record Players, as they are called today, have a history that dates back to the 19th century. Phonographs, as they…
Cyanotypes: The Blueprints of Sunlight and Curiosity If the daguerreotype was early photography’s dramatic leading actor—mercury fumes, silver plates, a…
A Brief, Wandering Look at How Photography Actually Began Long before we started stuffing our pockets with little rectangles that…