A new exhibition at the crossroads of art, history and technology chronicles the beginnings of early American photography.

The moment photography became ... of ordinary middle- and working-class parents queued to capture their child’s image. So far, so familiar. Here is the Victorian equivalent of an iPhone snap ...

THESE exquisite and intricate plant portraits by photographer William Arnold are a nod to the Victorian era of botany ... He is also working with the Eden Project to involve the public in ...

The collection, taken by pioneering photojournalist John Thomson in 1877, show what life was really like for thousands of Londoners in Victorian ... by the capital's working-classes.

It captures the harsh reality of the lives of the poor working class – it is the Victorian equivalent of documentary photography. Did you know with a Digital subscription to Yorkshire Post ...

But in Victorian ... of photography, external, the daguerreotype - a small, highly detailed picture on polished silver - was an expensive luxury, but not nearly as costly as having a portrait ...

It is the Victorian age in full flow, gleaming from the walls of the National Portrait Gallery in the gradated sepia or silvery tones of brilliantly detailed photographs. From the discovery of ...