Inside beat has an interesting article on the use of color photography in publications before it was “cool” to do so. Interestingly enough it was also expensive to print color photos in magazines at one point.

Groovy read…

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Canon has developed a large size CMOS sensor measuring 202x205mm. Not only the largest chip in the world for photography, but its application is designed for video at 60 fps as low as .3 lumens. This is basically moonlight.

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A juried exhibition for photographers working in low-fidelity or alternative process photography. Images must be shot with a toy or vintage camera and/or printed in an experimental or alternative process.

Some great looking images already submitted…

http://www.toyedwithphoto.com/

From the Kodak Blog

This shocking statement emerged abruptly from Leica Camera AG owner Andreas Kaufmann at a lecture on May 30 organized by the Japan Camera Industry Institute (JCII).

The company has discontinued its mass-produced silver salt film cameras, the M7 and the MP. Does this mean that the film camera, which made its debut as a Leica mass-production model in 1925, has finally been doomed to total obsolescence?

One of the biggest problems a company has with film cameras, particularly 35mm, is competition with itself on the used market. Leica’s aren’t too cheap and their film cameras are less of a “new professional” concern.

Too bad – the end of an era.

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From LATimes.com

“As long as you’re with the news no problem, but if you’re an ordinary civilian out here that has no reason to really record the building then that becomes an issue.”

I’m not one to make a public stand on this type of attitude, but can someone please point me to JUST ONE CASE where terrorism or any crime for that matter involved photography.

Full Article on KTSM El Paso

The Wall Street Journal has a nice commentary on Karl Blossfeldt and his place in the evolution of photography.

A key moment in photography’s change from a caterpillar into a butterfly was the 1928 publication of an eccentric book called “Urformen der Kunst” (Archetypal Forms of Art), assembled by a Berlin art-school instructor named Karl Blossfeldt. In thousands of austere, black-and-white, close-range photographs, Blossfeldt (1865-1932) used stripped-down leaves, stems, blossoms and pods as agents of transformation.

Couldn’t have said that any better…

Full Article on the Wall Street Journal

Another followup to the ongoing Ansel Adams “lost negatives” drama. Rich Norsigian claims he’s found some lost Ansel Adams negatives – he’s had them authenticated and appraised at $200 million… but who authenticated these? The Los Angeles Times has an interesting article explaining and pretty much validating my theory that people will do anything when they think they can get rich quick. He didn’t like what people were telling him, didn’t want to send them to a museum or other authority, so he assembled his own team of “paid experts”.

Alinder said it offended her that Norsigian’s motive now appeared to be money. “That was the end for me. I don’t think Mr. Norsigian is a bad person, but he wants so hard to believe this that he doesn’t see all the corners he’s bent.”

Norsigian responded through his attorney, Arnold Peter, whose Beverly Hills firm is helping him market prints priced at $7,500 and $1,500, with posters at $45. Norsigian offered Alinder a percentage of earnings from the negatives to serve as a consultant, Peter said, but she would not have been required to vouch for their authenticity. “He had basically hit a wall,” Peter said. “People would tell him these were Ansel Adams works but wouldn’t go on record, and she could help by opening doors, making introductions.”

Of course, anyone who understands what Ansel was all about will realize that the print was part of who Ansel was as an artist. How can prints made by an unknown photographer from questionable negatives be worth any more than the paper they’re printed on? This dude Rich Norsigian might consider stopping his goal of getting rich quick off of someone else’s legacy and get a real job.

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Six Reasons That Great Photos Alone Won’t Make You a Success

Herman Leonard, a photographer who created some of the most famous images of such jazz greats as Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington and others, died Saturday at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles. Mr. Leonard, 87, lived in New Orleans until Hurricane Katrina struck and destroyed much of his collection.

Article on NOLA.com

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OregonLive.com has a wonderful interview today with documentary photographer Mary Ellen Mark.

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From the New York Times

Shutter Tours incorporates a brilliant idea creating a more hands on tour experience.

from the Seattle Times

The Washington County Museum in Portland, OR is hosting the exhibition Dorothea Lange in Oregon: 1939 Farm Security Administration Photos through September 11, 2010. The exhibition represnets “work conducted in late summer/fall 1939 all over the state. The exhibit was produced by the Oregon Cultural Heritage Commission and contains large framed photographic selections drawn from the Library of Congress.”

Dorothea Lange was one of the greats. Go see this collection if you’re in the neighborhood.

from the Washington County Museum