Sometimes, Fitor spent eight hours trying to get a single picture. “At the end of the day, it was eye-breaking photography,” he says.

In 1862, Oliver Wendell Holmes, the pre-eminent photography critic of the day, praised Watkins and wrote that he had achieved "a perfection of art which compares with the finest European work." ...

said that photography was a political statement that reflected the photographer’s ideology. ‘In the past 10 years, the growth of gross domestic products has become much higher but deforestation and ...