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To say that mobile photography is popular is an understatement. As of June 2016, Instagram has 300 million daily active users worldwide, and nearly 28% of the total U.S. population has an Instagram account. But all those people doesn’t necessarily equate to good engagement per photo. In fact, the...

Documentary photography can be traced back to Jacob Riis and Lewis Hine, both of whom sought to show the horrid conditions in which immigrants lived and worked in New York in the late 1800s. Riis gained fame when his book How the Other Half Lives was published in 1890, shocking readers with images...

If I told you that the first photograph of the moon was taken in 1851, would you be surprised? The photo, which was a collaboration between daguerreotypist John Adams Whipple and astronomer George Phillips Bond, was taken using a Great Refractor Telescope. The images they created of the moon were...

Two major supporters of early photography were Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of England. Not only did both royals learn how to create calotypes - an early process in which negatives were created on silver iodide-coated paper - they also had a darkroom installed in their home at Windsor Castle....

Social sharing of photos has become a ubiquitous part of our lives. As evidence of that, over 300 million photos are uploaded to Facebook every day. Add to that the 80 million photos uploaded to Instagram every single day, and it’s easy to see how important social sharing has become. In fact,...

Although many people think of digital cameras as being a product that was developed toward the end of the 20th century, it is a technology that has been around for much longer. In fact, the first digital sensor was developed by George E. Smith and Willard S. Boyle in 1969. Forty years later, the...