Monochrome photograph of a nude man in nature by the sea.
A photograph by Wilhelm von Gloeden.
Von Gloeden has much more robust photographs. I love that this one is so simple that it could have been taken today, for social media—130 years since it was made.
#photography #arthistory #photohistory #vongloeden #beauty
LAST FEW DAYS
Still time to sign-up for our Research Symposium on Saturday (14th March 2026).
Great line-up of 12 #photohistory speakers
Join either in-person or livestream via Zoom.
Register via the link in our bio.
Our Research Symposium with @wlvcreativeindustries at Wolverhampton School of Art is only a week away.
Still time to register via the link in our bio.
Join us on Saturday 14th March 2026 either in-person or via Zoom.
It promises to be a memorable day of #photohistory research.
Tuesday 3rd March 2026 (1800 GMT).
Our latest online talk is 'Conserving Photographs' with Angels Arribas.
Register via link in bio.
events.rps.org/en/historica...
Please share details with #photohistory friends #collectors #artcollectors #museums
Why the didn't smile in early #photographs #photography #photohistory
windowthroughtime.wordpress.com/2026/02/14/t...
America turns 250 in 2026 🇺🇸
Museums will tell the official story.
But the real history lives in shoeboxes. Everyday photos show how America was actually lived.
Digitize them before they fade.
www.scanmyphotos.com/blog/2026/02...
#America250 #The250Project #PhotoHistory
The Netherlands Fotomuseum gets a stunning new home for its massive collection.
#photography
#photohistory
#photomuseum
www.wallpaper.com/architecture...
This book examines how different types of snapshot camera opened up opportunities to shoot new kinds of pictures and examines the part snapshots have played in social history.
💻️: https://tinyurl.com/wzzchm39
#photographhistory #socialhistory #photohistory
The Programme for our Research Symposium on Saturday 14th March 2026 held jointly with the Wolverhampton School of Art has been published.
Full details (in person and livestream) via link in bio or here.
events.rps.org/en/historica...
Please share with your #photohistory friends and networks.
Just got off the phone w a reporter talking AI + photography. Big Q: will all photos be AI-generated? Reality: everyone has a massive trove that isn’t AI, isn’t digital. Wild stat: 96% of analog photos haven’t been seen since dev.
#AIPhotography #DigitalPreservation #PhotoHistory
The Women of Photography 24-Hour-Conference-A-Thon schedule (8 March 2026 UTC+0) is now available. It's another amazing lineup of presenters and topics, and you can tune in by Zoom.
#photohistory
#womenphotographers
womenofphoto.com
Latticed window at Lacock Abbey, August 1835. A positive from what may be the oldest existing camera negative.
In 1839 #OTD, William Henry Fox Talbot exhibited several paper photographs he had made in 1835. One was this image, a latticed window at Lacock Abbey. It was a positive from what may be the oldest existing camera negative.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_F...
#photohistory
#photography
MOMENT FROM OUR PAST.
Early family photos look serious because long exposures were needed and the technology hadn’t caught up yet. Smiling was hard to hold.
Who’s got the most serious face in your albums?
#OldPhotos #PhotoHistory
Our latest illustrated #photohistory talk is now online.
Based on Hilary Roberts' new book 'The Camera at War.'
youtu.be/i4sMZhpuRCY?...
Please share with your #photohistory networks
A little something from my collection of vintage photographs. One of the most magical things about photography is being able to witness past scenes from ordinary life. It's a form of time travel.
benrains.substack.com/p/the-picnic
#photohistory #vintagephotography
A photograph of brass bird shaped whistle.
If you've ever puzzled over the old standard portrait photographers' exclamation "Watch the birdie!" this object holds part of the answer.
benrains.substack.com/p/the-canary...
#photohistory #portraitphotography
One of my favorite references for historical photography. The old encyclopedia and dictionary styled volumes like this have an incredible amount of information in them about a wide range of photography topics.
benrains.substack.com/p/cassells-c...
#photography #photohistory #vintagephotography
This book examines how different types of snapshot camera opened up opportunities to shoot new kinds of pictures and examines the part snapshots have played in social history.
💻️: https://tinyurl.com/wzzchm39
#photographhistory #socialhistory #photohistory
Portrait of Anne Brigman by Francis Bruguiere. She sits on the floor clothed in a loose flowing gown while staring into a clear glass ball.
Soul of the Blasted Pine, a self-portrait created by Brigman. She rises unclothed from a twisted stump, reaching toward a cloud-filled sky with her left hand in the air.
The Dying Cedar by Anne Brigman. A semi-nude woman draped in a long, dark cloth mimics the shaped of a twisted tree against a dramatic sky.
Wondrous Globe, by anne Brigman. A nude boy kneels on the ground and studies a glass globe sitting on the ground in front of him. The ground rises sharply at an angle, and the scene is viewed in profile. The sky behind is filled with soft white clours.
Happy Birthday to Anne Brigman, born #OTD in near Honolulu, Hawaii. She became one of the most recognized photographers of all time for her many pictorialist images of women and others who seemed to live in nature.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Br...
#womenphotographers
#photohistory
Join me for an online talk about my PhD on Thursday, December 11, at noon: www.nicas-research.nl/event/nicas-...
The title is long and technical 😅: Explorative surface metrology of intaglio printing plates and etched daguerreotypes with optical confocal microscopy
#daguerreotype #photohistory
This is an Arnold Genthe portrait I acquired a few years ago. The sitter wasn't known by the seller or identified on the print, but with some sleuthing I think I've found out who it is.
benrains.substack.com/p/a-portrait...
#photohistory #arnoldgenthe #almadebretteville #portraitphotography
This promises to be a great conference. The call for papers has been announced.
#demontfortuniversity
#photography
#photohistory
#conference
#phrc
photographichistory.wordpress.com/annual-confe...
I love reading about the challenges and triumphs of early #womenphotographers. Here's some great research on Californians Amanda Genung, a daguerreotypist and ambrotypist, and Jane Cary Howard, ambrotypist and Amanda’s business partner.
#photohistory
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/6petl...
A brief biography about a mostly forgotten late 19th century photographer, Emilie V. Clarkson.
benrains.substack.com/p/emilie-v-c...
#pictorialism #photohistory #emilievclarkson
A really enjoyable visit @mediamuseum.bsky.social today with fellow #photohistory enthusiasts.
Thanks to our hosts, Curator Francesca Issatt and Assistant Curator Saquib Idrees, for looking after us and answering our questions.
And @mikeyp1839.bsky.social for organising.
Looking forward to our visit today @mediamuseum.bsky.social in Bradford ...
Meeting up with fellow #photohistory enthusiasts and viewing collections followed by a curator-led tour of the new Sound+Vision galleries.
Famed British photographer Samuel Bourne traveled extensively in India during the 1860s. He had an eye for the perfect shot, but was his pursuit of perfection detrimental to local labour, knowledge and histories? #PhotoHistory
Chirantan Banik delves deeper:
www.theheritagelab.in/samuel-bourn...
