Image: 14.5 x 19.5 in. (36.83 x 49.53 cm.) Frame: 26 x 32 x 1.5 in. (66.04 x 81.28 x 3.81 cm.) Signed by the artist on the recto of the original mount. Artist's studio stamp on the verso of the mount.

A new method of photography is invented in France by Louise Jacques Mande Daguerre. The French government purchases the rights to the invention and makes it available to the public. Within months ...

sheet: 8 5 ⁄ 8 x 6 1 ⁄ 4 in. (21.9 x 15.9 cm.) mount: 18 x 14 in. (45.7 x 35.6 cm.) ...

This story appears in the October 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. On his first trip to the Sierra Nevada, in June of 1916, Ansel Adams went armed with a camera—a Kodak No. 1 Brownie ...

Perhaps no other artist in American history has had more impact on conservation and environmentalism than master photographer ...

Soaring slopes. Evergreen forests. Snow-capped peaks. It's hard to beat the Sierra Nevada Mountains, the sky-piercing range that dominates the eastern half of California. This region feels wild ...

The total value of an artist’s artworks sold at auction over a specific period. This metric reflects the artist’s overall market activity and demand in monetary terms. The middle value of all realized ...

Truckee, California, a Sierra Nevada town near the Nevada-California border that receives an average annual snowfall of 206.6 inches, was named the third snowiest town in the country by The ...