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The Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC, has purchased a groundbreaking collection of images by some of history’s earliest Black photographers. Pictures from the first African ...

(Left) Unidentified artist, Untitled (family, painted backdrop), undated, tintype. Unidentified artist, Untitled (pin, woman in hat), undated, celluloid in metal setting. Smithsonian American Art ...

Since its invention, photography has been used to document and interpret the landscape. Survey photographers in the 1860s were the first environmental advocates, arguing for the U.S. national park ...

Gordon Parks, Carrie Mae Weems and James Van Der Zee are among the most notable Black photographers to capture Black history in the making. Look back at their iconic photos Don Hogan Charles captured ...

When people envision the South, they may conjure images made by photographers who stylized the “Southernization” of aesthetics during the last century. Walker Evans, Gordon Parks, Sally Mann and ...

The legendary photojournalist was known as the "unofficial Asian American Photographer Laureate" Corky Lee, the legendary photographer who dedicated his life to capturing the lives of the Asian ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) - Two photographers based in Colorado Springs are now finalists in the World Photographic Cup. Ken Childress and Dave Soldano are two of three American photographers who ...

With one click of a camera, Los Angeles photographer David Suh transforms everyday people into models. "When we talk about being photogenic, a lot, people say, 'Oh, you're either born with it, or ...

The Smithsonian American Art Museum has bought a collection of early photographs, including very rare daguerreotypes from three early Black... Smithsonian Acquires Rare Antique Portraits By First ...