Jon Pountney’s photographs of the South Wales Valleys are no lament for a lost industrial past, but a vivid record of an area that keeps adapting to and even defying a changing reality
The ‘ghost’ photographs that proliferated in the late 19th century rely on tricks but say much about science, belief and mortality in the period
By turning social types into individuals, the photographer influenced many of his contemporaries and shaped how we see the 20th-century
Bruno Vandermeulen and Danny Veys use 19th-century processes to bring a very modern sensibility to archaeological sites in Anatolia
Victorian photographers in Italy were inevitably influenced by forms of landscape painting made popular in the preceding century
Turning black and white photos into colour – and vice versa – can be a harmless piece of fun, but the results can also mess with our sense of the past
