The movie Hidden Figures focused on the contributi...  ...n. A literal example of the phrase was found in a photograph taken at the 1971 International Conference on Bio...  ...the photo. Candace Jean Andersen came across the photograph in her research and wondered who the woman is, an...  ...acebook, and she con...

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, by most accounts...  ..., that's four, but let's not split hairs. See the photographic

Pioneering journalist Eliza Scidmore was the magaz...  ...was the magazine's first official female writer, photographer , and board member. In the 1890s, the organization...  ...iversary, National Geographic posted a gallery of photographs that broke new ground from the span of its public...

Come this May, Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Ba...  ...e circus through digitizing thousands of posters, photographs , circus route books and Kodachrome slides.While t...

The only photographic images of abolitionist and underground railroad o...  ...ew York at the time."What's remarkable about this photograph is that she's so proud and dignified and beautifu...  ...think it's going to surprise a lot of people."The photograph , along with the alb...

In 1960, photographer Alberto Korda snapped a photograph of Cuban revolutionary Ernesto Guevara, who went...  ...went by the name Che. Fifty-six years later, the photograph , cropped into a portrait, is everywhere. Che cam...  ...e image all around the world, yet the little...

The last of the Napoleonic Wars was fought in 1815...  ...fought in 1815. Napoleon died in 1821. The first photograph was taken in 1826, but portrait photography was developed in 1839. So photographs of the veterans of the Napoleonic Wars are a real...  ...l uniform to pay...

Photographers love to explore abandoned amusement parks and man...

Image ViaThough I am sure none of us travel to space enough to know the above photo occurance is rare, but it is rare. While many of us weened of film look at that and immediately think of the movie Gravity, stop and pon...

To mark World AIDS Day (December 1st), LIFE magazi...  ...agazine looks at the story behind the iconic 1990 photograph of David Kirby and his family that put a human fa...  ...how it affected families as well as its victims. Photographer Therese Frare shares how it came about.“Ear...  ...one billion people...