After the invention of the daguerreotype in 1837 by French chemist Louis Daguerre and the earliest photos of the Moon – first by Daguerre himself, then by John William Draper in 1840 – photographic ...

Photography has come a long way since the first ever photo saw the light of day. We've gone from painstakingly exposing metal plates for hours at a time, to snapping high-definition selfies in the ...

This image, taken by an unknown photographer in 1905, is an example of a cyanotype. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, William L. Schaeffer Collection A new exhibition at the crossroads of art, history ...

Every day, by the hundreds, people raise their phones to photograph the Cabildo, St. Louis Cathedral and the Presbytère. But there is a first time for everything. It was 185 years ago that the first ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. First photograph of Earth taken from Moon's orbit turns 59 NASA's Lunar Orbiter 1 captured the first photograph of Earth from ...

An astronomer and a photographer captured the first photograph of star 175 years ago on July 17, 1850. This image of Vega in the sky over Harvard is the first known photograph of a star other than our ...

Tucked away on Observatory Hill, a spectacular array of lunar photographs resides in the Harvard College Observatory’s Astronomical Photographic Glass Plate Collection. The collection holds ...