Known throughout the photography as having "the eye", many would add that he has the gift like no other for getting to the essence of a photograph.

2022 will mark the fortieth anniversary of the establishment of the London Photograph Fair. Its first outing was on Sunday September 12th 1982, and it was held at the Photographers’ Gallery in Newport Street, just off Charing Cross Road.

French’s images pack their punch precisely because of their essential simplicity; but this apparent simplicity was hard won, underpinned by the high technical standards that he set.

Where does photography stand in today’s art museum? And how did it arrive there?

The San Francisco Museum of Art opened its doors on the top floor of the War Memorial Veterans Building in 1935.

McKinley began collecting African studio photography while traveling in West Africa in the early 1990s.

China in the 19th century was not an easy place for foreigners to travel with and use their cameras.

With his name added this image says “I, Moholy, am shaping light with my hands” or “I grasp the light”.

Daniel Wolf was one of those giants in photography who played a major role in the development of our profession.

She made collecting things in various fields her life’s work, and saw it as in some way akin to the rewards of having a family, with each member looked after by being carefully preserved and immaculately annotated in her tiny pencil script.

In the summer of 1898, over 500 citizens of 35 Native American nations gathered in present-day North Omaha to participate in the Indian Congress.

At some point in her modelling career Antonia accepted to sit for photographers and used as she was to unveiling for painters did not think twice before doing the same in front of the camera.

The enigmatic figure photographed among the ruins flickers throughout the texts, like a protagonist in a film, somehow connected to the plot, but never fully developed and seen only in disconnected glimpses.

Du Camp’s sense of disorder and disjunction did leave its traces. One such trail appears intermittently throughout the photographs, a cypher that appears, disappears and reappears.

She studied it, smiled, and remarked, "You’re going to fly it over the Eiffel Tower, yes?" Suppressing a grin, I said, "Maybe."

These picture are subjective, they reflect me, my relationship with the world surrounding me, my vulnerability, my emotions, as well as the people who have collaborated with me.

Brodovitch loved the montages. In fact, he spent the entire class gushing over them.

It soon became evident that, thanks to the stereoscope, a large number of people who could not afford the expense of going on a Grand Tour, could at least buy stereo cards of the places they wished to visit.

During the epidemic that took place during the winter of 1910-1911, some 60,000 people were struck down by a pulmonary form of the disease that invariably proved fatal.

An exceptional archive, original photographs mostly taken by Henry-René d’Allemagne during his various archaeological, ethnographic and artistic expeditions in Persia between 1898 and 1907.

Up to now very little was known about American-born stereo daguerreotypist Warren Thompson and the information we had about him was very scant, so much so that nobody knew when and where he was born or what happened to him after the early 1860s.

On April 22, 1890, citizens of the central Kansas town of McPherson were greeted with a directive in the local paper: “Expression is the key to character. Think of this then have Mrs. Vreeland Whitlock take your picture.”

Coming in close succession, major authenticity scandals in 1997 and 1999 involving photographs attributed to Man Ray and Lewis Hine sent a shudder of uncertainty across the collecting community.

A photograph is more than an image. Paper, the physical material of the photographer, plays a vital role in the appearance of a photographic print and in conveying the photographer’s intention for it.

“Mad Romantic” is a term often used in the literature to describe the biographical journey of the extravagant John J. McKendry.