Books
Dutch photojournalist Geert van Kesteren’s Baghdad Calling is unique in photojournalism first for its innovative use of the book medium, a compendium of newsprint interspersed with smaller, glossy pages with text and photos. But the content of the book is just as surprising as the format it comes in
Art
While the visual associations with Jacob Riis's famous series How the Other Half Lives are inevitable, artist Robyn Hasty ambitious new photo essay using the wet-plate collodion process is very very different. Titled "Homeland,” Hasty's current project aims to document grassroots efforts to rebuild
Opinion
That New York Times staff photographer Damon Winter won third place in Pictures of the Year International's Feature Picture Story competition for his photo essay A Grunt's Life isn't surprising. The series of images shows an eloquent portrayal of daily life in a war zone for US troops in and out of
News
If Twitter has been dominating the discussion of social media and the current protests in Egypt, they aren't the only social network filling the intertubes with oodles of information created by everyday people, media professionals, and governmental forces. Sure the other social media channels have s
News
After numerous nasty incidents post-9/11 when the US government's rush to take away rights caused countless problems for people taking photos in public, today we have good news for photographers, artists, tourists, and camera enthusiasts across America.
Opinion
"What really dismays me … is how three major organizations [Time, Toronto Star & New York Times] could send out three of the best photographers in the business and, within the space of just over two weeks, proudly publish nearly the same photo-story … Is this pure coincidence? Or, does it illustrat
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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.