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These 20 famous photographs are significant in history each for their own reason. Learn how photography has literally changed history.

Press cameras were forbidden from the prison execution chamber in Ossining, New York, where Ruth Snyder was to be electrocuted on January 12...

A treasure trove of First World War photographs was discovered recently in France. Published here for the first time, they show British soldiers on their way to the Somme. But who took them? And who were these Tommies marching off to die?

He had to scamper in front of the camera after removing the cover on the lens

The Wright Brothers are famous for being the Pioneers of Aviation after their first powered, sustained and controlled airplane flight on Dec. 17, 1903.

The daguerreotype was the process of development of photography which entered use in 1839 and quickly gained massive popularity in Europe. Invented by a

The story behind Nicéphore Niépce's 'View from the Window at Le Gras', the first photo known to have been made using a camera.

Here's a photograph of Jessie Tarbox Beals, America's first female photojournalist, with her camera on a street a century ago. While most female