As newspapers struggle to survive in this new digital media world, an Arkansas-based collector named John Rogers has quietly built the world's largest privately owned collection of photographs by paying huge sums of money for their photo archives.
What’s more beautiful: Hilda Grahnat‘s collection of …
Yesterday we reported that artist Richard Prince had just lost a copyright infringement lawsuit against a photographer he appropriated images from.
Landscape photographer Terje Sorgjerd spent four years looking to create a timelapse of …
Did you know that Canon’s first logo back in 1934 depicted Kwanon, …
Update: The ruling has been overturned, and a judge has ruled that Prince's usage is fair use.
Richard Prince, the artist who "rephotographed" a cigarette advertisement and had it sell for more than $1 million, has just lost a copyright infringement lawsuit after being sued by photographer Patrick Cariou. Prince had taken 41 photographs made by Cariou from the book Yes, Rasta, modified them in various ways (sometimes minor), and displayed them at a gallery exhibition as his own work (above is one of Cariou's photos on the left with Prince's piece on the right). The exhibition went on to generate over $10 million for Prince and the gallery.
When PetaPixel reader David Anderson opened up the April 2011 edition of Shutterbug …
Jonathan over at PhotoWeeklyOnline created a couple …
A couple weeks ago we reported that a lawmaker in Florida was trying to make photographing farms …
Update: This giveaway is now over. The winner was randomly selected and announced below. Hello y’all. We’re going another …
Made in the early 1960s, Fisher Price's Picture Story Camera was the first "camera" owned by many photo-enthusiasts. They're built out of paper-covered wood and plastic, and contained a tiny disc with eight different "photographs" that could be seen by looking through the viewfinder -- similar to the View-Master, except not in 3D. To change the photo, you simply hold down the shutter and turn the "flash", a yellow block with pictures representing the four seasons.
An old lady brings her newly purchased Canon T2i and kit lens back to a camera store in Toronto …
The applications of this on the consumer photography market are likely nil, but researchers at Ohio State University have invented a method of shooting 3D photographs using a single lens. The trick is that the lens is cut like a gem, giving it eight different facets in addition to the main face that "see" the subject from different perspectives. Custom software then takes in the image and processes the 9 different views to create a single 3D image.
After Noah Kalina published his "Everyday" video back in 2006 featuring a self-portrait a taken every day for 2,356 days, the concept took off and soon the Internet was filled with copycat projects by people who wanted to document their own lives in the same way. If you've been wanting to try you hand at taking a photo of your face every day but have lacked the discipline to do so, there's a new app for the iPhone called "Everyday" that is designed to make things easier for you.
Using Lego pieces, Flickr user and Lego fan Larry Lars created an uber-accurate miniature version of his home photo studio. Maybe this could be a new method of creating lighting diagrams?
When Liana Garcia Joyce got married a while back (doubling her film stash), her mom came up with the idea of giving away these hand-crafted wooden photo holders as wedding favors because Liana met her husband through their common interest in photography.
Photographer Chris Marquardt claims to have used groundbreaking research to create a mind-boggling …
Flickr user Paul Little creates surreal images he calls "HDR Mixes" by combining different photographs with the help of HDR software. While you're normally supposed to feed the program multiple versions of the same photo (which are bracketed), with HDR Mixes you use two photos of the same scene and a third that's completely unrelated.
Here’s some neat camera trickery: Ryan Hargrave captured some unique home video by …
NASA has a long history of using Hasselblad cameras in space and, interestingly enough, you can download the Astronaut's Photography Manual used to train astronauts from Hasselblad's website. It covers everything from operating the Hasselblad 500EL/M to composition, using situations unique to astronauts in its examples and illustrations.
“Around the World in 2000 Pictures” is a neat project by Alex Profit — the same guy that did …
If you’ve been thinking of trying your hand at lunar photography, tomorrow night might present …
Make just published this short but informative tutorial on how to turn your …
If you somehow got your hands on a Fujifilm Finepix X100 already but don’t mind waiting a little longer …
"Space Program" is a project by artist Tom Sachs featuring 1:1 models of various space related objects, including an Apollo lunar module, a mission control unit, space suits, and handmade space suits. He also included the above NASA Hasselblad camera as part of the exhibition. Note the stylish wooden crank.
Did you know that some of Kodak’s early DSLR cameras had built-in games? Before Canon and Nikon started making …
If Doctor Octopus were to design a DIY flash accessory, it might look …
After seeing 3D light painting done with an iPad, classmates Jinhwan …
A huge story last year was when a painter named Rick Norsigian came across 65 glass negatives at a garage sale, purchasing them for $45. He then had them examined by experts, who told him that they were previously undiscovered Ansel Adams photographs worth at least $200 million. Just as the find was being heralded as one of the greatest in art history, Ansel Adams' relatives and Publishing Rights Trust expressed skepticism that they were in fact Adams'. It then came to light that the photos might actually belong to a man named Earl Brooks who once lived in the same city as Norsigian (Fresno, California).
Here’s an interesting snippet from an article published today by David Pogue of …
We’re not sure how we missed this when the camera was announced at the beginning of last …
Have an unloved camera strap lying around? You can repurpose it as a strap for a shoulder …
"Hipster traps" have been springing up across New York City, and one of the baits used is a Holga 120N camera. The traps are the latest project by artists Jeff Greenspan and Hunter Fine.
Urban Traps is a project where we lay traps for certain subcultures. Our goal is protect neighborhoods from infestation and collect different species for further study. [#]
Other items used for bait are sunglasses, a yellow bicycle chain, a can of PBR and a pack of American Spirits.
Here’s an interesting glimpse into what a DSLR’s aperture blades and shutter curtain look like in super slow motion.
Lomography shop manager Liana Garcia Joyce recently discovered an awesome trick for increasing your film stash: all you have to do is get married to someone who loves analog photography just as much as you do!
Cinematographer James Miller spent two years developing a technique for converting 8mm footage to digital by beaming it directly onto the sensor of a Canon 5D Mark II. He replaced the bulb on an old projector with LED lights, and used elements from a disassembled lens to focus the light. You can read a step-by-step walkthrough of this project here.
Chicago-based designer Dan Riordan woke up one morning, saw his Polaroid Land Camera 95A, and thought to himself, “I …
Last year we featured a pretty neat slow motion video shot from a moving train. British band …
Cell phones are playing a bigger and bigger role in citizen journalism — just look at the imagery coming …
This video by FotoTV features “microstock king” Yuri Arcurs leading a workshop and …