A new method of photography is invented in France by Louise Jacques Mande Daguerre. The French government purchases the rights to the invention and makes it available to the public. Within months ...

In 1980, the celebrated photographer Ansel Adams received the Presidential Medal of Freedom. The accompanying citation read: "At one with the power of the American landscape, and renowned for the ...

Ansel Adams wrote of an "inevitable conflict" between the accuracy of color film and people's subjective reaction to colors. Excerpted from the book Ansel Adams in ...