Art
The Snapshots of a Globe-trotting Geographer Before Globalization
The UC Berkeley Department of Geography joined Flickr Commons and shared transfixing photographs from a world-traveling scientist.
Flickr
Art
Mining Flickr for 1 Million Moons
In terms of things we photograph the most, the moon probably ranks pretty high, especially when it floats in the cosmos as a full-bodied orb.
News
Peekaboo, the NYPD Is Watching You!
The New York Police Department (NYPD) wants to regain the trust of the New Yorkers it alienated with recent controversies like “Stop-and-Frisk” and the killing of Eric Garner.
News
Does Adding Filters Make Your Photos More or Less Popular?
Filters, those in-camera photo editing presets that turn your so-so iPhone snapshots into Cartier-Bresson-esque encapsulations of the human spirit, have a direct impact on the popularity of the images shared on social media.
In Brief
After Outcry, Flickr Stops Selling Prints of Creative Commons Photos
In response to photographers' criticisms, Flickr has stopped selling photos uploaded by users under the Creative Commons “commercial attribution” license through its Flickr Wall Art site.
In Brief
Photographers Irked as Flickr Profits from Creative Commons Images
Yahoo's recent move to sell prints of photos users have put on Flickr has sparked a backlash from many photographers who object to the company's policy of taking all the profits from sales of images uploaded under the Creative Commons "commercial attribution" license.
Art
In the Internet Archive's Millions of Public-Domain Images, a Guide to Museum History
The Internet Archive is using public domain digitization to offer an entryway into its over 500 years of historical texts already online.
Opinion
Is Flickr's New App an Instagram Killer?
I was working on this review of Flickr's new smartphone app when the online world started to grumble about Instagram and some matters that should concern us all.
News
Some Photo News You Should Know
The world of photography is changing fast. Here are some recent highlights … Kodak stops the camera biz, Flickr will upgrade, Gizmodo gets the exclusive about Instagram and Pinterest keeps growing …
Opinion
Voting on a Masterpiece Out of Context
A few years ago, I was invited by photographer and Flickr superuser Thomas Hawk to join his DMU (Deleteme Uncensored) Flickr group, which allows users to post photos for voting by fellow users. But someone played a trick and submitted a photo by Henri Cartier-Bresson as their own and the resulting c
News
What Does Facebook's New Photo Viewer Mean for Artists Online?
Since the inception of Facebook’s photo viewer, an influential tool that’s become the go-to for documentation of everything from social events to product launches, users have been stuck at a pretty lousy 72 DPI and 720 pixels. Those digits mean an image size that’s low enough to make even high quali
Books
Review of Street Art New York, by Rojo and Harrington
Imagine a gallerist bringing new art works into the gallery. She pulls her truck up to the gallery curbside, gets out, and starts taking some paintings out of the truck bed. She takes one out just as she realizes that she hasn’t unlocked the gallery doors. So, she places the artwork on the curb and