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A pair of color stereogram photographs featuring people sitting in front of a desert stone structure.

New Look, Same Great Look

The history of humans being confounded by color photography.
by Kim Beil via Lapham’s Quarterly on May 16, 2022

This is an Experiment About How We View History

How does color influence our perception of time?
by Matthew Daniels, Jan Diehm via The Pudding on October 31, 2020
People visit the Trylon and Perisphere at the 1939 New York World's Fair

Color Photos of the 1939 New York World's Fair

Photographer Peter Campbell captured many scenes from the 1939 New York World's Fair in full color, both during the day and at night.
by Alan Taylor via The Atlantic on November 6, 2017

Into the Trenches in Red and Blue

Looking at color photographs of WWI feels like seeing a familiar scene through a different pair of eyeglasses.
by Adam Hochschild via New York Review of Books on September 5, 2014

In Living Color: The Forgotten 19th-Century Photo Technology That Romanticized America

People without the means to visit America's wonders could finally picture it for themselves.
by Ben Marks via Collectors Weekly on May 23, 2014
Gordon Park's photograph of law enforcement officers kicking in a door

When Crime Photography Started to See Color

Six decades ago, Gordon Parks, Life magazine’s first black photographer, revolutionized what a crime photo could look like.
by Bill Shapiro via The Atlantic on June 16, 2020

Finding Lena, the Patron Saint of JPEGs

In 1972, a photo of a Swedish Playboy model was used to create the JPEG. The model herself was mostly a mystery—until now.
by Linda Kinstler via Wired on January 31, 2019
Rail yard in Chicago.

Jack Delano's Color Photos of Chicago's Rail Yards in the 1940s

A handful of images from Chicago as it was some 75 years ago.
by Alan Taylor via The Atlantic on October 2, 2018

Explore the Early Years of Technicolor Film in 40,000 Documents

The Technicolor Online Research Archive has newly digitized documents from 1914 to 1955, chronicling the development of Technicolor film.
by Allison C. Meier via Hyperallergic on August 29, 2017

The Rise of the Image: Every NY Times Front Page Since 1852 in Under a Minute

Every single New York Times front page since 1852 in under a minute. Hint: Pay attention to the images!
by Christopher Jobson via Colossal on February 22, 2017
Revenge of the Goldfish by Sandy Skoglund, 1981

Obscura No More

How photography rose from the margins of the art world to occupy its vital center.
by Andy Grundberg via The American Scholar on April 29, 2021
A graphic featuring art and archival storage.

NFTs and AI Are Unsettling the Very Concept of History

Non-fungible tokens and artificial intelligence make tracing the origins of a digital object more fragile. What are the world’s archivists to do?
by Rick Prelinger via Wired on April 20, 2021

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