There's a legend that when the Lumiere brothers -- pioneers of motion pictures -- showed their film of an approaching train in 1896, the audience ran amok in terror ...

August and Louis Lumière were pioneers in photography. Legend has it that in 1895, when they premiered their first motion picture film of a train entering a station, audiences fled in terror, fearing ...

Lillian Gish. Harold Lloyd. The inimitable Buster Keaton. No discussion of silent movies is complete without mention of — and tribute to — those silver-screen pioneers. But no single figure epitomizes ...

Laura Gilpin (1891-1979). "Woman in black and white striped skirt seated in chair." 1979 Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, Bequest of the artist Laura Gilpin (1891- 1979). "Basket of peaches," c.

Simply sign up to the Fashion myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Described by photography historian John Wood as “the rarest, the most fragile and, to a great many eyes, the most ...

We tend to remember World War I, whose 100 th anniversary will be commemorated this month, in black-and-white. But there were a handful of photographers working during the war in color, using an early ...

For all intents and purposes, photography here in 2024 is digital. Of course chemical photography still exists, and there are a bunch of us who love it for what it is, but even as we hang up our ...

The potato is one of the least colorful of the good Lord’s creations. But somehow, two French inventors figured out how the dud spud could help put color in our photographs using a process they called ...

In 1907, the Lumière brothers, Auguste and Louis, introduced the first viable method of color photography. Although color photographs had existed, the process was clumsy and complicated. The key ...

It might surprise you, then, to learn that this image is part of a collection of photographs taken more than a century ago by British amateur photographer Mervyn O’Gorman featuring his daughter ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...