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“The library does have a photographic collection but in the past it has been spread between the departments: there's a huge collection in printed books, for example.”

Poet's downbeat letters to Fay Godwin among archive acquired by British Library See our gallery of the archive here Mark Brown, arts correspondent Wednesday May 7, 2008 The Guardian Philip Larkin, outside Hull ... via MediaGuardian.co.uk

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"I am out to introduce a psychic shock into my painting, one that is always motivated by pictorial reasoning: that is to say, a fourth dimension." BERLIN - The first major retrospective devoted to the Russian ... via Art Knowledge News

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We consciously chose to make the site design appear plain and simple, despite its deep complexity. via Soxiam

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Wedding photographers far and wide completed PDN's recent income survey, providing a snapshot of how much they earn on average, how hard they work, and how efficiently they run their businesses. via Photo District News

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Savage-based Momento Images Photography announces Jen Hillenga, co-owner and photographer, has received The Wedding Portrait Artist of the Year award. via Savage Pacer - Newspaper and online c...

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“This is such a crazy and unusual architectural space, the best possibility I could imagine would be to do an exhibition about today's Shanghai, which is equally disorienting and unusual and architecturally crazy.”

Yang Zhenzhong's Light and Easy II , part of ROM's Shanghai Kaleidoscope. Just as in politics, economics and, yes, Olympics, China has dominated art and its media outlets since 2000. via National Post

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“It's a mystery why these particular pictures were put together. It seems to have been a pre-selection for a joint project that in the end never happened”

A suitcase containing thousands of undeveloped photographs of the Spanish Civil War shot by the great war photographer Robert Capa has reappeared after being lost for 70 years. via The Belfast Telegraph

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Way back in 1975 -- when Kodachrome color slides and Kodak Instamatics were all the rage -- Kodak researcher Steve Sasson built the first digicam, cobbled together from spare parts and bleeding edge digital ... via Retro thing

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“This case establishes a law of privacy for children in those cases where, understandably, the parents wish to protect their children from intrusive photography by the paparazzi”

The initial claim by Rowling and her husband was thrown out by a London court last year, prompting the couple to appeal. via Globe and Mail

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May 7. KAZINFORM. A U.S. researcher says a photogenic drawing of a leaf could be the world's oldest photograph. via Kazinform

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