Simply sign up to the Fashion myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Described by photography historian John Wood as “the rarest, the most fragile and, to a great many eyes, the most ...

Stunning color images recently made available in high resolution by a French museum capture much of the world as it was transformed by technology and geopolitics 100 years ago. This image of a young ...

We tend to remember World War I, whose 100 th anniversary will be commemorated this month, in black-and-white. But there were a handful of photographers working during the war in color, using an early ...

The potato is one of the least colorful of the good Lord’s creations. But somehow, two French inventors figured out how the dud spud could help put color in our photographs using a process they called ...

Photography is older than you might think — there’s a picture of the French countryside that can be reliably dated to 1827 — and color photography, too, is a surprisingly early technology, having ...

It might surprise you, then, to learn that this image is part of a collection of photographs taken more than a century ago by British amateur photographer Mervyn O’Gorman featuring his daughter ...

For all intents and purposes, photography here in 2024 is digital. Of course chemical photography still exists, and there are a bunch of us who love it for what it is, but even as we hang up our ...

Sometimes it’s easy to forget that the distant past was in color, too. Remind yourself with this delicious set of Sometimes it’s easy to forget that the distant past was in color, too. Remind yourself ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

A little explanation to begin with. Autochrome photography was introduced at the turn of the 20th century. Red-orange, green and blue-violet dyed starch grains were painted on to glass, allowing light ...

Auguste and Louis Lumière revolutionised image-making with Autochrome, the first efficient way of producing colour photographs. [Photo/Royal Photographic Society/SSPL via Getty Images] Auguste and ...