Harvard University has transferred the controversial Zealy daguerreotypes — images of naked enslaved people in South Carolina — to the International African American Museum in Charleston.

For nearly two centuries, several names lived in silence, locked away in a Harvard archive, the faces of seven enslaved South ...

More than 175 years after they were created in South Carolina, Daguerreotypes captured in 1850, believed to be the earliest known photographs of enslaved people ...

The seven daguerreotypes, the earliest known images of enslaved people in the United States, will be unveiled Wedneday at the International African American Museum in Charleston, S.C.

Harvard University does not have to hand over a set of 19th-century daguerreotypes, thought to be among the first photographs of enslaved people in America, to one of the subject’s ancestors, a ...

There are lots of portrait photos in the Getty Museum’s exhibition “In Focus: Daguerreotypes,” but not many smiles. The photographers would not have been urging their subjects to say “cheese.” ...

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Western Approach to the Acropolis, Athens, 1842. Purchase, Philippe de Montebello Fund, Mr. and Mrs. John A. Moran Gift, in memory of Louise Chisholm Moran, Joyce F. Menschel and Annette de la Renta ...

At Elements today, Michelle Nijhuis explores the history and inevitable demise of the earliest photographic images, from the nineteenth century. While primitive compared to today’s photographic ...

C. 1860 portrait of an unidentified pair of prospectors by an unknown photographer (collection of the Canadian Photography Institute. NGC, Ottawa) “Gold! Gold from the American River!” So cried the ...