A new exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery traces three different 1800s forms of photo-making: daguerreotypes, ...

Portraiture has always held a unique place in photography, a space where identity, emotion and story converge. The newly ...

Phylicia Rashad has joined the cast as an aristocratic matriarch. In an interview, she, Audra McDonald and Denée Benton ...

Souwer is a process of painting on the back of the glass, a technique brought by Muslim pilgrims in the late 19th century to Senegal and still very popular to this day. The subjects of reverse glass ...

"Portraits have the power to stop time and reveal something essential about who we are," says Sandrine Hermand-Grisel, editor ...

Almost Unknown, The Afric-American Picture Gallery,” on view at the Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library, presents—for the ...

Ball, a free man of color, opened a one-room photo studio in Cincinnati in 1845, but the business soon folded. He honed his ...

Ever notice how your social media feed is packed with flawlessly edited photos? It turns out this obsession with picture-perfect portraits isn’t new and existed long before Photoshop and filters. Back ...

As a historical interpreter, researcher, artist, and designer, Cheyney McKnight incorporates 18th and 19th-century African American design skills to create pieces with a modern twist.

Museums are great places to escape to. That’s obvious. An antidote to the daily grind, to highways and traffic jams and to current affairs, they have air conditioning, clean bathrooms, cafes. You ...

In June, our art critic toured seven art museums from Detroit to Kansas City. National turmoil crept into the frame.