This article first appeared on Perspectives Daily, a publication of the American Historical Association. Chicago publishing magnate John H. Johnson wrote in his autobiography, “I wasn’t trying to make ...

Photography was Benn Mitchell’s passion and his craft, and he wanted all the money he made in the arts to go back into the arts, says his widow, Esther Mitchell. She recently donated the archives of ...

The Promise Armenian Institute at UCLA partnered with a film foundation to create an image archive to recognize and celebrate decades of Armenian photography. The Promise Armenian Institute signed an ...

A vast photography archive has been opened to reinterpretation. Curators and students at Columbia College Chicago have devised a way to get viewers to reimagine the meaning of a photograph. Chicago ...

Thousands of dedicated historians, photography enthusiasts, and archivists across the globe have spent years digitizing antique and vintage imagery to make it available for everyone to view online.

The Arab Image Foundation, Beirut’s pioneering non-profit archive of Middle Eastern photography, has launched an online platform that makes 22,000 images from the collection accessible and searchable ...

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For nearly half a century, Alan Montgomery has viewed the world through a camera lens. He has photographed presidents and princesses; captains of industry and oil wells; moon rocks and arcane ...

History, as a discipline, comes out of the archive. The archive is not the library, but something else entirely. Libraries spread knowledge that’s been compressed into books and other media. Archives ...