Photography News Archives

The International Center for Photography has selected the winners of the 24th Annual Infinity Awards for Excellence in Photography. via Photo District News

“I'm interested in how we see things and how we look at things. I'm especially interested in how various technologies mediate and modify what we see. I'm fascinated by these images because they are terrifying, while also really quite benign”

In these times of war and uncertainty, there is a looming current of fear that pervades the American psyche. via San Mateo Daily News

Artwork created by veterans will be on public display from 12:30 to 5 p.m. Thursday, Marc 6, at the St. via Hutchinson Leader - Newspaper and onl...

“She has been coming on leaps and bounds since last years competition”

Flashback: mums and babies queue up in the photography studio during last year's Baby of the Year competition. via Droitwich Spa Advertiser

The League of Creative Infrared Photographers was officially formed in January 2008. via Shutterbug

The Observer earned one Silver award and four awards of excellence in the Society for News Design's 29th annual competition. There were 4,818 entries submitted from 343 countries, and 1,166 winners named.

Winning a Silver award in the photography category for the coverage of the opening of the Billy Graham library were Todd Sumlin, photographer; Leslie Wilkinson, design team leader; Bert Fox, director of photography; and Barbara Russell, copy editor.

In the business news design category, Luke Trautwein won an award of excellence for a MoneyWise cover titled 'It's a Digital Life.' Trautwein and Wendy Yang, photo editor, earned another award of excellence in the same category for a page titled 'I Love You.' Read more

Both Ian Martin and Lorena Ros will be able to pursue new documentary projects, thanks to Getty Images. via Photo District News

“Burnham was where I learned photography”

Definitive Source of News and Information About Baguio Current Article The First Burnham Photographer By janice on Feb 28, 2008 in Features BAGUIO CITY - While some photographers are virtually "accidents of ... via WowBaguio

Celebrating women, artfully Area arts organizations create new month-long Festival of Women in the Arts during Women's History Month. via Star-Gazette.COM

“This exhibition showcases paintings that exemplify the unity between man's arrangement of nature's gifts and nature's own arrangements”

'Eiders at Low Tide' by artist Kenn Backhaus is part of the 'Still Life and the Allure of Nature' exhibition that opens Friday at Helena Fox Fine Art. via The Post and Courier

“The work itself speaks to people today because it is addressing very similar issues of enormous transitions in society and how art can come to deal with them in a way which can be both progressive and popular”

Between the end of the First and Second World Wars, central Europe struggled to come to terms with monumental changes that thrust it into modernity - universal suffrage, the advent of passports, urbanization ... via 102.9 CKDS-FM

“Aside from being amazing, it was the things he'd shared with me. The kinds of things I'd never share with anyone.”

Coming off the heels of releasing her 10th studio album, Discipline, International Megastar Janet Jackson will appear on the cover of VIBE Magazine's April 2008 issue. via WTVH Syracuse

The good: Very low noise, high quality images; 21.1 megapixels; live view shooting; pro-level build-quality and performance The bad: High price tag; heavy body; no AF in live view mode The bottom line: The 1Ds ... via CNET News.com

“There's a lot of physical stuff in the camera that is limiting its performance”

It's one of the oldest, most common problems in photography: that picture you thought would be the prize shot is out of focus. via CNET News.com

“My philosophy is that if they get a good basic knowledge of how an analog camera and a dark room work, they can handle any digital camera that comes along”

The magic of photography was love at first sight for Fine Arts Center photography teacher Debbie Cooke. via Tribune-Times

“It really puts a finger on the pulse of creative China and we hope it will give people in the UK a sense of the explosion of new design coming out of China today”

China Design Now, a major design exhibition, will be held at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London from March 15 to July 13, it was announced here on Tuesday. via People's Daily

The Perri Hart photography exhibit is now on display in the management office at the Oakdale Mall in Johnson City. via Press & Sun-Bulletin

“This probably will be a way for them to pursue a reorganization strategy out of the burning spotlight of Wall Street”

March: Getty Communications is formed through the acquisition of Tony Stone Images, a London stock agency. via The Seattle Times

“We have plans to become a significant player in this business.”

Camera phone snapshots are, by and large, like fast food - convenient yet not usually all that good. via Democrat & Chronicle

The Herald Bulletin staff photographer Don Knight was honored Saturday during the 2007 Indiana News Photographer Association contest. via Anderson Herald-Bulletin

The Sigma Corporation is pleased to announce the launch of the new 4.5mm F2.8 EX DC Circular Fisheye HSM lens. via Shutterbug

“But it's fun to see her making decisions. She might not be a little girl, but she wants to be a princess.”

Brides-to-be gathered Sunday at Avalon Manor to look for ways to make their upcoming nuptials more memorable. via The Times

“Before (the 2002 ruling) we would generally charge all the images.”

NEW YORK : Each week, about 100,000 sexually explicit images of children arrive on CDs or portable disk drives at Michelle Collins' office. via International Herald Tribune

WHAT: "In Search of America: Photographs by David Graham" Silver Eye Center for Photography WHERE: Silver Eye Center for Photography, 1015 East Carson St., Pittsburgh. via Centre Daily Times

“K.C. Hancock: Passages in Monotype”

Willamette University has forged relationships with indigenous people in Oregon and New Zealand, an effort that now includes an exhibit traveling from Oregon to New Zealand. via Statesman Journal

“The supervisory board of Leica Camera AG today removed Steven K. Lee as member and chairman of the board of management of Leica Camera AG with immediate effect”

The Leica M8, the company's first digital rangefinder camera, costs $5,500 without a lens. via CNET News.com

“Looking at each format, one can see the technical reasons why different camera makers are doing things differently and that adopting a common standard can possibly limit the innovations they introduce in newer cameras.”

I was in a pinch a few weeks ago, and Google's Picasa software saved my skin. But now my warm glow of gratitude has begun wearing off, replaced by a simmering annoyance with camera makers for their profusion of ... via CNET News.com

“I still shoot with regular film because I've got too much invested in my cameras and flash units. Plus Kolor Quick has always done a excellent job of developing film and printing pictures.”

Jack Huffman of Florence has been interested in photography since Cadillac offered V12 and V16 models and Chrysler offered its first V8 in the early 1930s. via Morning News

NEWS "New Emissions Of Light And Sound" Premiering In Laguna Beach Posted Thu Feb 21 00:00:00 EST 2008 On February 22 starting at 6 p.m. Globe's new surf film, New Emissions Of Light And Sound , will be shown ... via Transworld Surf

“The multiaperture sensor can form images at close proximity...because no objective lens is needed”

Most folks think of a photo as a two-dimensional representation of a scene. Stanford University researchers, however, have created an image sensor that also can judge the distance of subjects within a snapshot. via CNET News.com

Colourful roses will be in full bloom at Chandigarh's 36th annual rose festival, which begins Friday. via New Delhi News.Net

Annual Faculty Exhibition Webster University's May Gallery kicks off 2008 with its annual faculty show. via Riverfront Times

“Ken lived for photography. It was far more than just a job. "He was also a very sociable man who just adored his children, Matthew, Jonathan, Daniel and Kate and me.”

MOURNERS packed in to a village church to say farewell to a former picture editor of the Worcester News, Ken Upton. via Worcester News

"AES+F" AES+F is a Russian art powerhouse comprised of Tatiana Arzamasova, a conceptual architect; Lev Evzovitch, a conceptual architect and filmmaker; Evgeny Svyatsky, a graphic artist; and Vladimir Fridkes, a ... via Houston Press

“If there ever was an embarrassing moment”

Imitation can be the sincerest form of confusion.

So learned a Las Vegas man who alerted the media this week that he thought he had found a rare photo at his Bronx service station of Marilyn Monroe posing nude as a hitchhiker. What he had was a famous photo of Madonna.

The image of the Material Girl, who often cast herself as a sort of latter-day Monroe, appeared in 'Sex,' her 1992 book of risque photography. In it, she posed in heels and handbag, with a cigarette in her mouth.

Lawrence Nicastro, 73, said he found the grainy, poster-size photo last year while going through storage items at his home in Las Vegas. He believed it had been left by a customer at the Bronx service station in 1962. Read more

The Amgen Tour rode into Sacramento this afternoon. The finish line is around the corner from my office so I headed over to grab a few pictures.

“A tool you want to use every day.”

Ricoh Caplio R8 Introduction Slim 7.1x Optical Wide-Angle Zoom Digital Camera with 10 Megapixel CCD and Enhanced Photography Functions Tokyo, Japan -- February 19, 2008 -- Ricoh Co., Ltd. via Cameratown.com Digital Imaging News

“Everyone can post their work, no matter what medium they work in”

DeviantArt gets 1.5 billion page views a month, making it one of the most popular Web sites that many people have never even heard of. via CNET News.com

“The books and pictures do not fall into the category that would disturb the public”

Japan's top court ruled on Tuesday that pictures by late United States photographer Robert Mapplethorpe are not obscene, putting an end to years of legal fighting. via Mail & Guardian

“The red carpet is dead. Magazine editors want to see these people in real-life situations.”

A Los Angeles photography agency has launched an art exhibit billed as the first of its kind using paparazzi photos. via CBC

“He goes into Photoshop and turns the image into something very unique.”

The state's largest photography convention will roll into the Pasadena Conference Center on Feb. via Pasadena Star-News

“I have no reason to continue my sacred career as a newsman. I am not qualified for the job”

The chief editor of a Chinese newspaper resigned after it came to light that one of its photographers had faked a prize-winning photograph of endangered Tibetan antelopes appearing undaunted by a controversial ... via Reuters

“Richard Avedon is a true genius of photography and one of the greatest artists of our time”

A retrospective of works by US photographer Richard Avedon has taken Milan fashion week by storm, with pundits prophesying that the man who breathed life and soul into glamour will remain an icon. via Raw Story

“I had the (literature) for five DJs, and I looked and thought, 'OK, which one is it?'”

NEWARK -- Last year, Chelsea Lohr attended The Advocate's Bridal Show and found the perfect DJ. via The Advocate

“Normally, 3-D imaging requires taking multiple images on multiple planes and then reconstructing the images”

Technology invented by scientists from The Johns Hopkins University and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev can make three-dimensional imaging quicker, easier, less expensive and more accurate, the researchers ... via PhysOrg Weblog

“It provides an opportunity to embrace the multicultural and varied ethnic backgrounds of our island”

Daily News Photo by CRISTIAN SIMESCU Wood turner Avelino Samuel tells students about his work at the 21st annual Caribbean Fine Art Exhibit at Good Hope School on Friday morning. via Virgin Islands Daily News

Festival's photo exhibits examine Indian women, female identity February 17, 2008 credit line Wilka Roig and Tarrah Krajnak are young women artists who investigate the gestures, costumes and settings embedded ... via Star-Gazette.COM

Snapshots are universal. Almost everyone in the U.S. has been snapped and, more than likely, been the snapper.

The resulting photo record usually ends up in a drugstore envelope with the processed negatives and dumped in a box to be sorted later. If it is an especially good snapshot, it might go directly from the drugstore envelope onto the refrigerator door. A fortunate few are given a decorative edge and pasted into a craft-trendy scrapbook.

That's about as noble an end as a snapshot can expect, and yet most people consider that box of unsorted photographs one of their most precious possessions -- the thing that might win out over the beagle if the house were ever to catch fire. Read more

“The acquisition of the Panza collection, 20 years ago, catapulted MOCA into the first rank of collections internationally”

In the highly competitive world of fine-art collecting, Museum of Contemporary Art director Jeremy Strick argues, possession is nine-tenths of the law. via Pasadena Star-News

Mark Lawson: The Polaroid was beloved of spies, pornographers, cops - and me, but for very different reasons It's always a poignant moment when technology once cutting-edge begins to be edged out. via Buzzle.com

In the past, the General has only tested Camaro mules wearing heavily modified Holden Commodore bodies in the U.S. These pics, however, show a pair of Camaro prototypes, one festooned with camouflage and one ... via Autoblog

“We want to hold up a mirror to our audience”

Nearly 30 years after hip-hop first exploded onto the national music scene with "Rapper's Delight," the Smithsonian Exhibition has made the art form the subject of a new National Portrait Gallery showcase. via Hiphop-elements.com

Wicomico County high school art students brought a rainbow of color and kaleidoscope of perspectives to their exhibition at the Atrium Gallery at Salisbury University. via Daily Times

You may be passionate about photography, and own a digital SLR with perhaps more advanced equipment as well. via O'Reilly

“Our photographs have the potential to hang next to those great masters. Executed properly, images of today's celebrities can exude an incredible amount of style and elegance that portray our ever-changing and exciting pop culture”

Paparazzi are getting a lot of bad press these days, so it takes some chutzpah to launch a photography exhibit called "Paparazzi as an Art Form" in the heart of celebrityville. via Reuters

Three digital photography workshops will be offered at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point in March and April, sponsored by Arts and Culture Outreach through UWSP Continuing Education. via Stevens Point Journal

“We the people was only the beginning. What took place after the signing would test the men that placed their names on that paper”

Answering a want ad got Lew Lause into the world of photography. The ad was for a position at Clark Equipment in Lima. via Central Ohio

“I remember one high school senior brought in his eight prize roosters.”

ARLINGTON -- There were cheaper places to have photographs taken to mark life's milestones -- first birthdays, graduations and weddings -- but for a generation and more, Arlington's Blauvelt Photography was a cut above.

The family business will be shuttered at the end of this month.

'It's for sale, lock, stock and barrel,' said Summer Blauvelt, whose father, Sandy, opened the studio in 1974.

Since then, Summer Blauvelt said, it's been a family operation along with her mom, Suzy, and her brother, Charles. Read more

Image-editing applications that run on a Windows PC have been available since the early 1990s. via Shutterbug

“Basically, they just need to be over 6 months old”

South African artist Johan Spies straightens his artwork Wednesday in the ballroom of Charleston Place in preparation for the upcoming Southeastern Wildlife Exposition. via Post and Courier

“It has an intangible quality that fits with walking down the street, and I see something cool, and snap a photo of it”

When Jerry Conlogue heard Polaroid will soon stop producing its instant film, he worried about his mummies. via New York Daily News

“I didn't want to become a 'fashion photographer' but I knew somehow that my loves of fashion and photography would eventually merge. I just never guessed that it would be in the form of a blog.”

Scott Schuman, who otherwise goes by the name The Sartorialist, is something of a fashion phenomenon. via Photo District News

The fourth annual photo contest sponsored by Agricultural Heritage & Resources Inc., Kewaunee, will be held from Feb. via Kewaunee County

“We just have to overcome some limitations.”

Geotagging, in which digital photos are labeled with the location where they were taken, is mostly unfamiliar to photographers today. via CNET News.com

Apple's Aperture is used to edit and catalog photos. After pioneering a high-end photography software niche then losing ground to Adobe Systems' Photoshop Lightroom , Apple on Tuesday counterattacked with ... via CNET News.com

Joyce K.L. Smith Environmental Photography Show and Competition, open to amateur photographers and high school students, will accept entries until the deadline on March 5. The competition is sponsored by the ... via Press & Sun-Bulletin

CLICK FOR SLIDESHOW AND VIRTUAL TOUR This weeks Sunday Snapshots feature the art photography of GNN Staff Photographer Dennis Stierer, who is showing his work in an exhibit at the Kenan Center House Gallery in ... via Union-Sun & Journal

“The Android platform consists of a full software stack, starting from a Linux kernel and all the way up to applications.”

Several technology suppliers, including ARM Ltd., Texas Instruments and Qualcomm, unveiled their own versions of Google's Android platform-based cellphones here Monday at the Mobile World Congress. via DesignLines

“Mr. Mordick has waived extradition, so we just need to arrange transport later this week”

A well-established commercial photographer has been jailed on a fugitive warrant from Anaheim, Calif., in the throat-slashing death of his estranged wife in 1983. via KOMOradio

“The photos show how Chinese women participate in the country's social and economic life, promoting harmony and progress. They also demonstrate women's aspirations for freedom, equality and happiness”

The photography exhibition Women in China opened in London yesterday, showcasing women's lives in modern China. via English.eastday.com

“Basically Kehinde Wiley takes a black man - a subject who had only been on the margins of historical grand portraiture - and puts that man squarely in the centre of the tradition and gives that visual power to his anonymous subject”

Legs crossed and fingers splayed, LL Cool J strikes the same regal pose seen in John D. Rockefeller's 1917 portrait -- though he wears a ball cap. via CTV.ca

“We're at the crossroads now. It's a matter of do we reinvest or do we pick up our marbles.”

The smell of photo chemicals is long gone. The days of film strips hanging from the ceiling only a distant, laughable memory. via Wenatchee World

February 11th, 2008 by Chris in Tech News , Photography When I was a kid, there was this magic camera that took pictures that you could see and hold instantly. via Coolest Gadgets

“I wished I had known her better and understood her better, then maybe we would not have wasted so much time fighting.”

She is believed to be the only female photojournalist working on the front lines during the war."The journey from being a model to a wartime correspondent is not the usual career trajectory," said curator ... via The Canadian Press

“Looking for products in the market a year from now would be about the right time frame”

Texas Instruments Inc said on Monday it had developed a chip to support cell phones with mini projectors and another chip that would let users record high-definition video on their phones. via Reuters

“The Nokia N78 truly lives up to the Nseries promise of delivering unparalleled mobile multimedia experiences with the very latest technologies and services”

Fully-featured multimedia computer optimized for sharing music, images and 'new discoveries' Nokia today introduced the Nokia N78, a multimedia computer that combines music, navigation and photography with the ... via News From Symbian Smart Phones World...

Apparently Polaroid announced that it's no longer going to produce its trademark insta-develop film . via The Stalwart

“I helped her with the yearbook, and when she first started, we had to print pictures in a darkroom. That's how Rachel got started.”

Scott Johnson Middle School journalism adviser Louis Plumley shows off copies of the school's newspaper, "Tiger Pause" and the school's yearbook, "Tiger Tales." This photo and others available through Photo ... via Star Community Newspapers

“You don't really win any prize, but you win the recognition from (Russell James)”

Brian Jones wasn't sure what would happen when he entered VH1's online photography contest for its show "The Shot." However, Jones' photography came out on top two contests in a row, one in wildlife and the top ... via Central Ohio

News about upcoming photo events and contests: Feb. 15: National Geographic Magazine Grant Deadline National Geographic magazine has extended until Feb. via Photo District News

“Canadians really haven't been able to see the river as it was before, I think, until this exhibit.”

More than 60 vintage photographs of the Columbia River - the earliest dating from the 1880s - are on display at the Royal BC Museum. via MyTELUS