Photography News Archives

Does that new feature increasingly found in pocket-sized digital cameras-face-recognition technology-really work? It's actually a lot cleverer than you think. via Express India

“We learned a hard business lesson there”

When the 2007 Dream Room Awards ceremony was held recently in Nashville, Jeff Sanders didn't attend. via The Greenville News

I vaguely supposed that this art form, initiated by the ancient Egyptians, had gone the way of the Dodo sometime around the birth of photography and the death of Frederic Chopin. via About.com

The Warren Photographic Society has kicked off a new year with many members having attended special seminars and programs over the summer. via Tribune-Chronicle

Submitted by ruzik_tuzik on Wed, 2007-09-26 10:49. The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History is proud to announce a special collaboration between the Museum's Archives Center and the Frederick ... via Huliq.com

It should go without saying that finding the right wedding photographer is crucial, given that he or she will be responsible for the archival record of your landmark day. via The StarPhoenix

“I've got a young daughter of my own, and I have worked with children when I was a social worker in California. So I'm good with kids and now I get to work with them doing something I love.”

Young entrepreneurs pursuing their dreams continue to find success in the growing downtown area. via Valdosta Daily Times

“I'm here to teach art, but I also want to take it a step further.”

Students, teachers, administrators and staff members at John Burroughs High School this month are putting up a beautiful fight against breast cancer. via Burbank Leader

“Shooting HD green screen can be tricky, given the extreme level of detail HD captures”

Emmy-Award winning Director of Photography Rob Fortunato is currently in production shooting a History Channel special, "1968 With Tom Brokaw," with Panasonic's AJ-HDX900 multiformat DVCPRO HD camcorders . via TV Technology

“They incorporate artistic aesthetics in everything they do. It's only natural that we tie into that.”

As more art galleries open in Washington County, some are turning to technology to better display the artists' work. via TheSpectrum.com

The twentieth century saw both fine art photography and documentary photography become accepted by the English -speaking art world and the establishment of the gallery system to display these art works. via Diplomatist

A most excellent E-Class experience Photography by Greg Jarem writer: Greg N. Brown photographer: Greg N. Brown Now, after driving Mercedes' newest diesel-powered sedan on a spectacular route from Almaty, ... via European Car

The Metropolitan Museum inaugurated the Joyce and Robert Menschel Hall for Modern Photography on September 25, 2007, establishing for the first time a gallery dedicated exclusively to photography created since ... via MySoCalledGayLife.com

“Each viewer (myself included)”

One of the more haunting exhibits you're likely to see this fall is Leonard Stokes' solo act at Manhattanville College in Purchase, a show destined to evoke the names of Dali and De Chirico. via The Patent Trader

"We are in the Stone Age of digital photography. We've figured out how to make some tools, but it is just now beginning to dawn on us what we might do with them. via Safari Tech Books Online

“What I really like is that it's going to raise money for Grace Hill”

Frontenac -- At the ritzy Plaza Frontenac, a place where shoppers buy gowns at Neiman Marcus or diamonds at Tiffany & Co., a modest photo exhibit on the second floor captured moments from lives lived more ... via Springfield News Leader

"Blowing Flower" submitted by Derek Dysart received five stars on the PopPhoto Flash rating system. via Popular Photography & Imaging

Birmingham - Brian S. Culver, 45, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court to serve 60 years in federal prison. via ABC 33/40

“This is an opportunity for people to be part of the curatorial process, to contribute their own memories, their own treasures. They are part of the creation of the content and connections”

Though its physical construction is years away, the National Museum of African American History and Culture this week is inaugurating an online spot where visitors can help shape its content. via The Pine Log

Both professional photographers and amateurs are welcome to participate. Apart from earning prizes, winning entries will be published in the global newspaper The Epoch Times - published in 17 languages on the ... via The Epoch Times

Here's a design prototype camera that's pointing in a playful new media photograhy direction: "The Tripos is a robust digital camera which allows the user to experience new perspectives and perceptions and ... via Ratchet Up

“Even though [digital cameras and computers] help develop the field, they also create chaos”

Renowned photographer Merih Ako ul is celebrating 30 years in the profession with an exhibition at Istanbul Photography Center's Leica Gallery. via Turkish Daily News

“There are some things I never saw before. I enjoy creating memories. Because of my love of scrapbooking and my family, (photography) all just fits together.”

Like other members of the Photography Club at Sunset Pointe, Sue Allie is looking to improve her skills on the camera. via The Villages Daily Sun

An exhibit seized from a gallery amid fears it breaches child pornography laws is not the work of a controversial South African artist, it is claimed. via BBC

Yesterday, the two-time Pulitzer winner and longtime Post photographer and editor was named assistant managing editor for photography. via Photo District News

“I was wet. I was cold. It was miserable.”

On D-Day, June 6, 1944, Robert Capa was landing at Omaha Beach with American soldiers, famously shooting his series of frantic, blurry pictures. via Photo District News

“The children were free to learn what they saw. We discovered several very talented individuals who had a deep and precise awareness of the environment around them”

Tehran's Nikol Gallery plans to hold an exhibit displaying the works of 13 children, who "want to be a photographer" on October 7. The aspiring photographers, ranging in age from 5 to 9, are a group of girls ... via Tehran Times

If you are buying a digital camera for the first time and are confused about the right megapixel size, here is all the information you need! The article gives you an understanding of what a pixel is and how the ... via Buzzle.com

Newspapers won two of the four new Emmy Awards for broadband, while multimedia photo production company MediaStorm won a third. via Photo District News

A picture taken by award-winning American photographer Nan Goldin has been pulled from a British gallery over concerns it amounted to child pornography, a newspaper reported Tuesday. via Press of Atlantic City

"I always thought that one of the reasons why a painter likes especially to have other painters look at his or her work is the shared experience of having pushed paint around" -- Chuck Close ' Eve Arnold in ... via Art Knowledge News

Olympus has introduced the SP-560 Ultra Zoom digital camera with 27mm wide-angle to 18x optical zoom) and an 8-megapixel image sensor. via Shutterbug

“They weren't famous names when I started working for them”

One giant leap for Britain You wait around for a building finally to reflect our multicultural society - and then three come along at once. via MediaGuardian.co.uk

“I think this is total ignorance.”

Then Monday morning, pictures from one of the stolen computers started showing up on the social-networking site Flickr - photo album to the world - turning a mundane B&E into a high-tech whodunit. via Globe and Mail

“It's also the lower middle-class who buy their Rs. 995 analog cameras.”

At a time when the world is going by in flashes, G.K. Vale is going to be 100 years soon. via The Hindu

SOUND and lighting kit worth 39,000 is not reaching the public despite being funded by tax payers' money, it has been warned. via This is Dorset

“All good things come to him who waits.”

If you're a good writer , you should be able to talk the talk when it comes to blogging about a particular subject. via Performancing.com

Add lenses to your digital camera Want to take the very best picture of a small coin or the Grand Canyon's panoramic vistas? You don't have to be limited by the lens on your point-and-shoot digital camera. via Komando

“I am not suggesting anything, I am not a political painter, I do not comment on social issues in my art, nor is this an intellectual piece - I am just appreciating beauty.”

Spot Light : Celebrating life in Malaysia... artistically RANJEETHA PAKIAM One of Yee I-Lann's pieces titled 'Bersatu Padu' is a collection of wedding pictures taken between 1977 and 1982 at the same studio. via New Straits Times

“And I've pretty much been a digital camera whore since they first came out. I was all over it.”

"I used to love the darkroom," confesses the shaggy-haired web developer and amateur photographer, with a wry grin. via Orleans Star / Weekly Journal

“Photography collectors have been asking us to come to Miami in December so that they could have access there to a focused exhibition of the most important photographic works available on the market.”

Alex S. MacLean, Wave pool, Orlando, FL, April 1999, C-Print, 20 x 24 inches, Courtesy Kathleen Ewing Gallery. via Art Daily

“Obviously this would be tricky for you to recreate at home as the paper would burn, so I don't recommend it.”

It turns out I like to dabble in Asian and gay porn. Food porn, that is. In the last few weeks I've been slammed with a trove of advanced copies of cookbooks, mostly five-pound coffee-table versions filled with ... via NEWCITYCHICAGO.COM

The following is a press release from the Information and Public Relations Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Latvia: Yesterday, 19 September, the official opening of the photo project ZZZ ... via LETA

“It was a little weird but definitely worth it.”

AS HE anxiously counted the minutes until he would propose to Emily Cappella last month, Guildry Santana ran down his checklist. via Scotsman.com News

“In a word, you will enjoy these prints. You will be impressed, astounded. But you will not love them nor want to hang them in your home.”

Self-Portrait , Alma Lavenson, 1932. Gelatin silver print. Collection of Center for Creative Photography. via Art Daily

“Some photographers take pictures; I find them.”

For 60 years, Jane Bown has been capturing the world as she sees it, from her iconic portraits - John Lennon, Bertrand Russell, Bjork - to her heartfelt images of the everyday - a Grimsby docker, a gypsy child, ... via Surrey Hants Star

If pictures are, in fact, equivalent to a thousand words, the photographs taken by Edward Burtynsky speak such volumes that you couldn't assign a numeric value to them at all. via The Tennessean

Addressing an issue that pre-dates the digital age of photography, a federal court judge in New York has rejected photographer Alan Satterwhite 's lost slide claim against a once-prominent stock photo agency. via Photo District News

"That magic of seeing a momentary capture of something almost beyond belief that makes you grab your camera," said Stephen Johnson, "that's why we love photography. via Digitalmedia.oreilly.com

“You see it on MySpace and Facebook, where people have posted 200 photographs of themselves, and they're not even photographs of profound moments.”

Everyone who received a romantic wedding proposal certainly remembers it well, even if the marriage didn't turn out so great. via ShoppingBlog.com

“The work is so stellar, whether you had that history or not”

Sonia Handelman Meyer was nervous - "like this," she said, holding her hands out and shaking them in mock terror. via Myrtle Beach Online

“It was a lot of work, with two years of living in Afghanistan, and then another year in post production after that. To finally see it come to fruition is one of the most satisfying feelings and it's really wonderful.”

A photojournalism graduate from Loyalist College who spent 18 months documenting the lives of Afghan women and children has just had her first book of photography published. via The Pioneer

Sep 21st 2007 From Economist.com Face recognition is only the beginning DOES that new feature increasingly found in pocket-sized digital cameras - face-recognition technology - really work? It's actually a lot ... via Economist

“Every photographer has their own personal, emotional investment. His documentation is a personal view. It embraces a lot of civilian tragedies and victories. It has an outward truth about his world.”

Photojournalist Alan Pogue and painter Philip Field explore truth in a new exhibit at South Texas College. via Themonitor.com

“Dogs or no dogs, Mr. Wegman is one of the most important artists to emerge from the heady experiments of the 1970s”

It's not for us to determine William Wegman's role in the artistic firmament: It's more than enough for us to enjoy his work. via Dayton Daily News

A balanced approach By ANDRE BOILY For the keen amateur and the professional photographer alike, calibrating colours prior to taking a series of pictures is a necessity. via 24 Hours Toronto

“If for example, an image of a piece of architecture reflecting in a canal can make Muscovites scream with delight, we [in St. Petersburg] think it's commonplace”

The St. Petersburg PhotoFair at the Manezh Exhibition Hall next month features photographs uploaded on the Internet. via The St. Petersburg Times

“I shall miss it. I like organising things and meeting all the people. I just love it when the doors open to the public and they all come in and look at all the gorgeous exhibits.”

Record entries for 'fantastic' show Di Peters is pictured holding one of her winning floral art entries. via Falmouth Packet

The new SanDisk Ultra II CompactFlash memory card has a minimum sustained write speed of 9 megabytes per second and a read speed of 10MB per second. via Buy.com

“I apologize to the court, to my wife and family and to the thousands of people who live here in Jefferson County.”

Posted by ERIC VELASCO and VAL WALTON September 20, 2007 6:36 AM Former Jefferson County Commissioner Chris McNair was sentenced to five years in federal prison Wednesday. via The Mobile Register Online

THE ARCHITECTURE & BEYOND LECTURE SERIES IS BACK FROM SUMMER BREAK. And, for the first lecture, we're proud to present... Filmmaker, photographer and author George Haas works in the grand tradition of American ... via Eastside Real Estate

Posted Sep 18th 2007 2:04PM by Tim Stevens Filed under: Cameras , Computers With many things digital, more is better: More gigabytes of space, more gigahertz of speed, more inches of LCD, more hours of battery ... via Switched.com

“After 9/11 ... I thought and continue to think that New York is an island and that we forget it's an island and this is a reminder that it's incredibly beautiful”

Lou Reed has long been lauded for his critically acclaimed musical portrait of New York. via Scotsman.com News

“If a client gives me the choice, I'm going to shoot film”

Photojournalist Chris Usher usually relies on digital technology. When he wants something special, though, he reaches for a film camera.

'I shoot just as much digital as the next guy out of necessity,' Usher said. 'I use film probably a third of the time, on personal projects 100 percent of the time. There's a richness and a depth of field that becomes more prevalent when you're shooting film as opposed to digital. It has a tangible feel to it.'

Even as the digital revolution is transforming photography, more than two-thirds of professional photographers in a survey released Wednesday said they still prefer using film for certain tasks, praising its ability to add an almost organic quality to pictures. Read more

“During the first night, we'll discuss a number of things including when to use a flash and when and where is the best time to take photographs”

People looking to learn more about their digital cameras will have the opportunity in October as the Harms Advanced Technology Center will offer a number of courses. via Star-Herald

“The PhotoShelter Collection is an open marketplace that embraces the ethos of the web, while maintaining the integrity of the professional photography industry.”

PhotoShelter Inc, a trusted provider of state-of-the-art online archive and e-commerce solutions to more than 16,000 professional photographers, has announced an open call for all independent photographers - ... via Customer Interaction Solutions

Thornwood, N.Y. The Zeiss Distagon T* 2/28 is a new, high-speed, wide-angle lens, complementing the line of advanced SLR lenses from Carl Zeiss for analog and digital 35 mm single lens reflex cameras. via Cameratown.com Digital Imaging News

“If print vendors cannot convince digital camera owners to do more with the photos that they print, they will likely see a steady decline in print revenues over time”

September 17, 2007 InfoTrends' recent Web-based survey of nearly 4,000 Internet users in Western Europe examines consumers' continual adoption and usage of digital photography products and services throughout ... via InfoTrends

“In Milan and Paris all the professionals are so good and they are so well backed up that there's not much room for young designers to show”

Bella Freud is serious about fashion, so serious that when she expresses the nature of her creative compulsion, one feels a jolt of something like shock and awe. via The Belfast Telegraph

Canon EOS 40D DSLR digital camera Review I love my 30D so I wonder what they did to improve the 40D? What is it - Canon digital SLR with 10.1-megapixel CMOS sensor The good - Handling, image quality, ease of ...

“It was San Francisco in the '60s, New York in the '40s, Paris in the '20s.”

The thousands of photographs that Boyd Lewis snapped in Atlanta during the 1970s documenting protest marches and election parties, love-ins and has-beens, provide a surprising historic archive. via Atlanta Journal-Constitution

“Invalid operation. HD (1080i) output in progress.”

The Sony Cyber-shot DSC-T20 -- a replacement for the DSC-T10 -- features an eight megapixel sensor which is coupled to a Zeiss-branded 3x optical zoom and a 2.5 inch LCD display. via The Imaging Resource News Page

“We told President Bush that we are Iraqis and that we do not believe in sectarianism at all. We want to be united and build Iraq together.”

Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki looks at pictures during a photography exhibition in Baghdad September 13, 2007. via AlertNet

“Had I stopped to put the TV on or to call someone, or do anything, or had I had the radio on when I left my parking spot, most likely I would not have taken that picture.”

NEW YORK On the morning of September 11, Jewish photographer Robert A. Cumins was running late. via Jerusalem Post

Model/actress CARMEN ELECTRA has hit out at paparazzi complaints over the photo restrictions at a recent appearance at New York Fashion Week, insisting her request was "not unusual". Electra, who posed sexily ... via PR-inside.com

Some believe film is dead, but I get as many e-mails from photographers as ever asking about film scanning. via Shutterbug

If a picture is worth a thousand words, what are nearly 1,000 photos worth? When they come from our readers, they're priceless. via Coshocton Tribune

Fall is the nicest season for rolling down the car windows, taking a drive and enjoying the scenery. via Buffalo News

“If anyone wants to say something to any cop, try not to be disrespectful.”

Through a dark lens - light SELMA/SELF-PORTRAIT From the heart The LOVE participants expressed their feeling in pictures and words. via The Toronto Star

Garfield Ellis, writer of 'For Nothing At All'. - Andrew Smith/Photography Editor Author: Garfield Ellis Number of pages: 172 Reviewedby: Mary Hanna Hard-hitting and eloquent, this coming-of-age novel follows ... via Jamaica Gleaner

“How could I tell them, after he passes away, I'll come back and photograph them holding him?”

The day Maddux Achilles Haggard died, an idea was born.It began in the hearts and minds of two mothers, one with a dead child and the other who understood her pain and could offer comfort with a camera. via Rocky Mountains News

“The pictures that Munhwa Ilbo obtained reveals Shin posing stark naked. With alternately shy and blank expressions, Shin exposed her front, side, and back in a bathroom inside a room stocked with books.”

The Munhwa Ilbo evening paper printed two pictures alongside an article with the headline: "Nude Photos of Shin Jeong-ah Discovered in a High Ranking Official's Home" in its September 13 issue. via English Dong-A

“She said in a letter in the 30s 'I'm a jigsaw puzzle where the pieces have all got swollen and don't fit together any more,'”

From surrealist muse to unflinching chronicler of the Second World War, a new London exhibition charts the "jigsaw puzzle" career of United States model and photographer Lee Miller. via Raw Story