The Smithsonian American Art Museum has acquired a collection of objects related to early American photography from the collector Larry J. West that transforms the museum’s photography holdings. The L ...

Rare glimpses of black soldiers from the Civil War come into view, their presence asking nothing more than to be remembered, if not celebrated. The documentary film Through A Lens Darkly draws ...

There are infinite ways you could open an exhibition on the gapingly expansive theme of American photography, a category that has influenced Western visual culture in more ways that we can fathom.

LOS ANGELES — What is so fascinating about staring at the faces of people we will never know? A new exhibit at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) provides a wide and whimsical range: ...

MINNEAPOLIS — A University of Minnesota group exhibition is breaking boundaries in the art and global communities with more than 200 images documenting the Black American experience. “A Picture ...

Through A Lens Darkly, an extraordinary new documentary by filmmaker Thomas Allen Harris, is at-once a deep, rich dive into the history of African American photography and — transcending the subject ...

James F. Ryder, “Atlantic & Great Western Railway” (1862), albumen print, overall: 18.9 x 23.5 cm (7 7/16 x 9 1/4 inches), collection of William L. Schaeffer (all images courtesy National Gallery of ...

Merry Foresta is nothing if not persuasive, which helps if you're a museum curator with a very good eye and you know what you want. In this case, what she wanted for the Smithsonian's National Museum ...

Stream and trees with mountains in background, Yosemite National Park, CA. Yosemite's Domes. Watkins, Carleton E., 1829-1916, photographer, 1865. Library of Congress "Views of California," an exhibit ...

In “Stieglitz, Steichen, Strand,” the Metropolitan Museum of Art pulls from its own collection to present the work of three heavyweights of American photography: Alfred Stieglitz, founder of the ...