It was, they said, “the largest prize contest in photographic history.” The Rush Rhees Library in Rochester, N.Y., houses a collection of photographs from the first-ever picture contest sponsored by the Eastman Kodak Company.
Kodak advertised aggressively for its 1929 picture contest, spending hundreds of thousands to encourage “fortunate amateurs” to take part. Nancy Martin, a University of Rochester archivist and Rochester Collections librarian, says she believes the first contest was the company’s effort to “start cameras working and keep them working.”
While things like pixel count, ISO range and video additions such as the headphone jack will get the most attention and discussion in the days ahead, the real story of the 5D Mark III is how much effort has been directed towards making it better as a camera.
After months of rumors and speculation, the next generation of Canon’s premiere pro-level shooter has arrived. On Friday, the company announced details of its long-awaited EOS 5D Mark III DSLR.
Notable updates are plentiful. There’s a totally new 22.3-megapixel full-frame CMOS sensor (up from 21.1 on the Mark II) with a new photodiode structure that reduces image noise
SYRACUSE, NY (March 1, 2012) – Photojournalist Justin Maxon is the winner of the2011 Alexia Foundation $15,000 grant for professionals,and Katie Orlinsky is the first place winner in the student category, Tom Kennedy of the Alexia Foundation For World Peace And Cultural Understanding announced.
Yang Yongliang is a young photographer and artist from Shanghai. For ten years he studied traditional Chinese painting and calligraphy which have greatly influenced his work. His photo collages combine elements of traditional Chinese art with modern life in Shanghai
Agence France Presse reports that French photographer William Daniels has managed to escape from Homs, Syria to safety in Lebanon with French reporter Edith Bouvier. The two journalists had been trapped in the besieged city for more than a week. Bouvier’s
Get ready for a brand new PhotoShelter. We’re kicking off a year-long radical upgrade of our service that will take a big leap forward in photo hosting and photography websites. These upgrades will take place across a series of phases throughout 2012 that
Get ready for a brand new PhotoShelter. We’re kicking off a year-long radical upgrade of our service that will take a big leap forward in photo hosting and photography websites. These upgrades will take place across a series of phases throughout 2012 that will bring you a brand new PhotoShelter
Kodak has discontinued three colour reversal films, BJP can reveal, as the company continues to review its operations. However, says a spokeswoman, Kodak will continue to support its other lines of films
The task of illustrating an overillustrated city fell to Kathy Ryan, who receives an editing credit on the cover of what is the magazine’s first “photography issue” in many years. Alongside Mr. Khan, five other London-based artists and photographers are featured, including Mark Neville, Chris Levine, Nadav Kander, Gareth McConnell and Stephen Gill, who provided a series of found portraits of couples kissing at their weddings, culled from a collection of 9,000 negatives he bought on eBay.
News stories of the deaths in Syria of American reporter Marie Colvin and French photographer Remi Ochlik totaled in the thousands last week. That was followed by hundreds of stories yesterday about the rescue of British photographer Paul Conroy, who was
Lost in much of the coverage about Conroy’s rescue was the fact that 35 activists helped Conroy reach safety in Lebanon, and 13 of them died during the rescue mission. AP reported those deaths, which occurred when government troops attacked the activists.
Who says you have to go halfway around the world to find gripping images? Craig Walker spent a year covering assignments in Denver, and in between shot an award-winning series on an Marine vet grappling with post-traumatic stress disorder.
Despite the convulsions of the Arab spring, the Japanese Tsunami and the continuing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Denver Post photographer Craig Walker stayed home in 2011. He covered daily assignments — and in between produced a wrenching story on an Iraq war veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder.
Yuri Kozyrev won four major awards in this year’s Pictures of the Year International competition for his coverage of the uprisings in the Middle East. It was, he said in something of an understatement, “a pretty busy year.”
Yuri Kozyrev, who thanked his editors at Time for handling so many of the logistical details, said the awards are an honor. But so was the chance to bear witness to the uprisings. “Lenin witnessed two revolutions,” he said. “I had a good chance to witness four.”
The Utah Humane Society and other advocacy groups oppose a bill that would make it a crime to videotape or photograph agricultural operations without permission from owners, saying the legislation would have a chilling effect on stopping animal abuse and trample free-speech rights.
Jonathan Blaustein interviews photographer Kurt Tong. JB: You and I met, as I have with several people I’ve interviewed, at Review Santa Fe in 2009. I don’t think we’ve seen each other or spoken since. I’ve got to give a shout out to that class of ’09. Th
Absolutely. I went Paris Photo recently, and it is the same 8 or 10 photographers who are dominating the whole scene. It’s almost like they’re eating the main meal, and there’s another 200 photographers eating the scraps around it. And I’m not even eating the scraps
David Campbell, a thoughtful writer on photojournalism, has just published a draft of one of his most recent papers, “The Myth of Compassion Fatigue” (pdf). There’s a summary of the paper’s main points on his blog. The paper addresses the origins of the idea of compassion fatigue, Sontag’s own reversal of her original thesis, current thinking about compassion fatigue, and, most importantly, a look at what sort of evidence might indicate that compassion fatigue is a problem.
I went to Nikon yesterday with my photojournalist friend Keith Bedford to get hands on a pre-production D800 and in particular look at it’s video functionality
Hot Spots: Martin Parr in the American South, a thirty minute documentary short, examines the photography of Magnum’s most controversial and prolific member as he gathers images for his first commission by a major American art museum, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta.
HBO, the premium cable network, has agreed to air a four-episode documentary series, “Witness,” about war photographers. The Hollywood Reporter says the documentaries, produced and directed by Michael Mann and David Frankham, will follow young photographe
the ferocity of the attack scattered the rest of the group, Avaaz said. The three other journalists were forced to turn back and remain trapped in Bab Amr. Ten more activists escorting them were killed in the confused retreat into the neighborhood, which has come under sustained bombardment for the past 25 days
