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 ...

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 ...

Stunning color images recently made available in high resolution by a French museum capture much of the world as it was transformed by technology and geopolitics 100 years ago. This image of a young ...

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 ...

In 1902 two successful French inventors bought a stretch of lakeside real estate in Burlington's South End. Fast forward: A local historian is determined to tell the full story of how the city's ...

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 ...