The negatives were reportedly left by the Ross Sea Party of Sir Ernest Shackleton somewhere between 1914 and 1917. The negatives were damaged, but a Wellington, New Zealand photography conservator was ...

Conservators with the New Zealand Antarctic Heritage Trust recently announced a remarkable discovery: 22 unprocessed photo negatives that they believe belonged to the Ross Sea party, a part of Sir ...

The photos are from Ernest Shackleton’s 1914-1917 Ross Sea Party, which was stranded for some time on Ross Island after its expedition ship, SY Aurora was torn from its moorings.

Wiltshire, Sir William Henry Fox Talbot, known as the father of modern photography, was a British visionary whose name is etched in the annals. He passed away on September 17, 1877. In 1833, while ...

A box of 22 photographic negatives, containing never before seen images of Antarctica, has been discovered, lying for nearly a century in an explorer's hut in the frozen continent.

Film cameras are seeing another renaissance. But some new photographers are leaving something behind: the tea-colored originals that determine the life of pictures.

Adolf Hitler, right, sits with admirers in a cafe. The National Archives is digitizing nearly 1,300 images from glass photo negatives created by Hitler’s personal photographer, Heinrich Hoffmann.

Restoring one of the supply huts used by the party, Antarctic conservators discovered a box of 22 unprocessed cellulose nitrate negatives, believed to have been left there by the Ross Sea Party ...

Taken by members of the unfortunate Ross Sea Party of 1914-1917, the photographs survived the marooning of 10 crew members in 1915 and were forgotten upon the crew's rescue in 1917.