In 1827, French inventor Joseph Nicéphore Niépce took the earliest known surviving photograph with a camera obscura, a “dark room” that anticipated the camera and required an exposure of several days.

Mr. Jacobs is a critic and writer on photography. John Szarkowski, the legendary former curator of the Museum of Modern Art, once described photography as “the act of pointing.” And for the nearly 200 ...

From landscapes and street to architecture, portraits, and beyond – these international photography contests want to see your ...

Major exhibitions and commissions will honor Nicéphore Niépce's invention and explore photography's evolution from 1826 to ...

Julia Margaret Cameron (1815–1879) was photography’s first widely recognized artist, making images in a signature soft focus style that remains captivating to this day. Before it was an art, ...

Film is like the indestructible black knight in Monty Python's The Holy Grail: It's not dead yet. Digital photography is well into its third decade. Yet film keeps hanging on, lying there shouting, ...

I do not envy the judges of the Natural Landscape Photography Awards. Now in its fifth year, it's attracting some outrageously talented lenspeople, and I'm having a hard time even narrowing down which ...

A powerful example of visual storytelling and technical precision, this award-winning image stood out in AAP Magazine's ...