by the 19th century, small portraits were mass-produced, accessible even to poorer soldiers who wanted to send a picture of them in their uniform. The Reflected Self is a subtle show. Its intrigue ...

Rare, problematic portrait of 19th-century enslaved man named Frederick sells to unknown buyer at New Orleans auction for ...

Behind her, drapery is pulled back to reveal a bucolic landscape, a common trope in portraits at the time ... Black subjects from the 17th to 19th centuries opens in November.

The first decade of the 20th century is particularly abundant in Boznańska’s self-portraits. From then on, the artist stuck to one already developed convention as well. She keeps dressing according to ...

In 1847, French photography pioneer Charles Nègre created a 3D self-portrait using a "witch's mirror" - a clever piece of 19th-century surveillance technology. These convex mirrors, popular in ...