Dispatch August 2026: My Monthly Photography Newsletter
Photographer Keith Dotson's Photography Newsletter for August 2026
Flipping page-by-page through a tattered 1860s family photo album from Ohio
Photographer Keith Dotson flips page by page through a tattered 1860s family photo album from Ohio
Looking at an Antique Tintype Portrait in a Beautiful Case, Circa Early-1860s
Fine art photographer Keith Dotson shows a small tintype portrait in an oval frame, dated to just around the period of the American Civil War. He also examines the beautiful thermoplastic gutta-percha style case.
Photographs from an Unidentified Oklahoma Family’s Antique Film Negatives (Pre-1920)
In this blog post and video, we will look at early 1900s photographs from an Oklahoma family scanned from their old negatives.
Keith Dotson’s Photography Newsletter — June 2026 (The Kansas Edition)
The June 2026 edition of Keith Dotson's photography newsletter focuses on various aspects of his Kansas photography road trip.
Looking at Eight Antique Glass Plate Negatives
Fine art photographer shows off 8 antique glass plate portraits he discovered in an antique shop in Kansas
Antique Photo Analysis: In Front of the Duomo, Siena, Italy
Photographer Keith Dotson analyzes an antique photograph from his personal collection, an Edwardian-era tourist photo made at the Duomo in Siena, Italy, with additional commentary by A.I.
Detailed A.I. Analysis of an Antique Portrait of a Man Playing a Banjo
Artificial Intelligence made a surprisingly rich and fascinating analysis of this cabinet card portrait showing a man playing the banjo
Photographer Tokujiro (Henry) Motoyoshi’s 1900’s Portrait of a Fashionable Gibson Girl
In this article, we examine an antique portrait of an early 1900s Gibson Girl by San Francisco photographer Tokujiro (Henry) Motoyoshi (includes a video)