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These incredible photos of the World Trade Center were taken by Balthazar Korab who was commissioned by the Twin Towers' architects to document the buildings.

RR Auction held an Apple-themed auction last week focused on the legendary late Steve Jobs and Apple's role in the computer revolution. The auction achieved a total of $983,096 in sales.

The Flip Video cameras took the world by storm in 2006. And like most storms, damage was left in Flip's wake to the tune of a $300 million loss. YouTube creator Krazy Ken of Computer Clan takes a deep dive into the wild story of Flip's dizzying heights and shocking lows in his newest video.

A team of scientists and artists have spent the last decade excavating and reconstructing an incredible 75-foot-long dinosaur skeleton, and National Geographic has been along for the ride, documenting the detailed process.

Gordon Laing of CameraLabs is back with another installment of his Retro Review series, rewinding the clock a couple of decades with a look at the Canon EOS 10D.

Nearly a half-century ago, Navy-trained World War II combat photographer Charles “Chuck” Scott helped launch a photo school at a state university in the Appalachian foothills in small-town Athens, Ohio (2024 population 24,956).

In the 60 years since Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin piloted the Lunar Module, Eagle, to the Moon's surface in 1969, space probes have routinely surveyed and photographed the legendary Apollo 11 landing site. But which country has captured the best photo of Apollo 11's history-making Tranquility Base?

Regardless of the complex cultural, social, and political impacts of the attempt on former president and 2024 election front-runner Donald Trump's life, the event has left an indelible mark on the photography world and offers a chance to consider how society consumes, shares, and thinks about images.

Imagine running a headshot session and instead of handling the photos with sensitivity and care, the photographer sells the images to a national company for a major advertising campaign.

About a week ago, I caved in and decided to spring for one of those huge, high-power USB-C power delivery hubs that have sprung up in the past couple of years.

The Larsen Ice Shelf in Antarctica has been breaking for decades, but 2002's Larsen B collapse was especially dramatic. After being stable for at least 10,000 years, a large portion of the shelf broke apart, with the consequences felt around the entire planet.

Leica is such a prestigious and recognizable name in the photography industry thanks in large part to the lasting appeal of the company's vintage cameras and lenses. The market for pre-owned Leica gear is as active as it is vast.

Of all the low-resolution digital cameras from the 1990s, none has had the lasting cultural impact of the monochromatic, 0.014-megapixel Nintendo Game Boy Camera. Romanian video game technology company, Epilogue, has turned the Game Boy Camera into a webcam, offering nostalgia-infused fun for teleconferences.

A fascinating documentary looking at the brave cameramen who accompanied Allied troops during the D-Day landings has been shared by the Imperial War Museum of London.

For photographers who were around during the emergence of the DSLR, few cameras are as influential or recognizable as early Canon EOS Digital Rebel models. Gordon Laing of Cameralabs has turned back the clock to look at the very first Rebel DSLR in his latest Retro Review.

These fascinating historical photos reveal the relatively unknown history of the migrant worker or "hobos" in early twentieth-century America.

This is a photograph that was on the wall of my house when I was growing up — it’s Jerry Uelsmann’s Self-Portrait as Robinson & Rejlander (1964). I always wondered who those guys were. I was about to find out.

A daguerreotype of the first First Lady of the United States and the earliest-known photograph of a First Lady is to be auctioned off with the current bid well above the asking price.

A rare 66-year-old Leica MP2 black paint camera has been sold for 1.56 million Euros, or nearly $1.68 million, at the 44th Leitz Photographica Auction in Wetzlar, Germany.

Photography has long played an instrumental role in preserving moments -- some mundane, some good, and others downright horrific. A photo album from Auschwitz fits squarely in the latter group, although not in the way one might expect.

Despite the ubiquity of the iPhone camera sound, with trillions of photos shot on iPhone every year, many people don't know the fascinating analog origins of the camera app's digital shutter sound.

Very little is known about American Civil War photographer Timothy O'Sullivan -- the man who took the haunting A Harvest of Death photograph in the aftermath of the Battle of Gettysburg -- but a new book attempts to shine a light on him.

Like the Underground Railroad, the Leica Freedom Train was not a physical object or location but a monumental and dangerous effort to save people from persecution and even death.

Throughout photographic history, few cameras have had the kind of defining influence that can compare to the original Barnack Leica. It’s only natural that the industry of the time would react impulsively to the arrival of such a new, exciting, and innovative breed of camera – which is exactly what happened.

Stereo images have been part of photography since its invention in the first half of the 19th century. Cameras enabled artists to produce two identical images from very slightly different perspectives -- all that is needed to create convincing "three-dimensional" images. While technically possible with paintings and drawings, cameras made stereograms significantly easier.