Wilhelm Röntgen, “Hand with Rings,” a print of one of the first X-ray photographs (shows the left hand of Röntgen’s wife, Anna Bertha Ludwig) (December 22, 1895), albumen photograph (courtesy Röntgen ...

In photography, necessity has always been the mother of invention – and a number of very pressing needs gave rise to the Rolleiflex twin-lens reflex (TLR) camera, a design that survived for 70 years.

The Prehistory of photography -- Photochemical investigations -- Phantoms of Photography -- The First Conception of photography -- The Invention of photography -- The First Photographer -- The First ...

In the 1950s, several things were happening. Among news photographers in particular, there was a shift away from the large and heavy 4x5-inch ‘press cameras’ to 35mm cameras. Almost simultaneously, ...

The last few years have been particularly tough for Kodak, the almost-120-year-old photographic company based in Rochester, New York. As we ticked over into the 21st century, Kodak employed some ...

With Halloween around the corner, it's a good time to look back at how a people used to capture family memories. The Kodak Instamatic camera was called "revolutionary" when it hit the market in a huge ...

Introduction: Whose stories are we telling? -- In and out of the studio : early professionals and amateurs -- Avant-gardes : modernity and the "new woman" -- On the street : documentary and reportage ...

The old saying goes that a picture is worth a thousand words, but does that make a camera worth over 2 million bucks? It does for this one, the favorite camera of LIFE magazine photographer David ...

Airou Toy Digital Camera, manufactured in China for Capcom (all images courtesy Prestel) The colorful history of toy cameras, those affordable film cameras in plastic boxes, is being celebrated in a ...