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For the first time in more than 25 years, the Metropolitan Museum of Art will display five of its original Autochromes by Edward Steichen and Alfred Stieglitz for one week only — January 25-30, 2011 — as part of the exhibition Stieglitz, Steichen, Strand.
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Photographer Thomas Hawk visited the World Erotic Art Museum in South Beach took photos, he claims he didn't see the no photography sign. Now the South Florida institution filed "fradulent" DMCA notice with Flickr and Yahoo, which owns Flickr, has threatened Hawk's entire account with permanent dele
Opinion
San Francisco Rainbow over the Bay Bridge [http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5248/5284998586_1cb98ba7d0_z.jpg]http://www.flickr.com/photos/redpilotmedia/5284998586/ This stunning photo was taken by photographer and Bay Area tech host Lisa Bethany. She has blogged a step-by-step guide on how she create
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Another New York museum has removed its photography ban in galleries. This time the Museum of Arts and Design (aka MAD) is the latest institutions to join the ranks of MoMA and other major art institutions that welcome photography in their galleries, though some restrictions may apply to specific wo
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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
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From Carlos Miller’s excellent Photography Is Not a Crime blog we discover that the Transportation Security Administration has slapped its name on a poster that depicts a photographer in a threatening light. What is the TSA trying to say? I called to find out.
Art
Over at MoMA, there are two big survey shows that focus on a single theme throughout the history of photography from the heyday of the daguerreotype through to the present. The first, Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography, is an “installation that comprises more than 200 works by approx
Opinion
Writing for the Guardian, Sean O'Hagan is wondering how our recent laws governing privacy and surveillance are impacting the art form we've come to know as Street Photography.
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… new cargo regulations have some in the art world on edge … the New York Observer kisses up to the critic who ate any semblance of sanity … three newspapers are named the World's Best Designed.