High mortality rates converged with the developmen...  ...mortality rates converged with the development of photography in the Victorian era. Along with extended mournin...  ...long with extended mourning rituals and mementos, photography offered a way to remember a lost loved one long a...  ...ph taken of the p...

In our modern world, smartphones allow anyone to b...  ...obsession to the world. But even in the days when photography was new, expensive, and relatively difficult, Vir...  ...orate, self-directed photo shoots. At a time when photography was still in its infancy, the Countess had a body...

This picture of Romanian oceanographer Emil Racovi...  ...ving suit was taken in 1899. From what we know of photography in that era, cameras were large and fragile, and...

photography studio and look what happened. They fell into a f...

Civil War photographer Matthew Brady began taking photographs years before the war, and made a good living taking portraits. In one upstate New York town, he was only approached by one reluctant customer after the man's...