After the Leica X1 Black Embossed Ostrich Limited Edition, the M9 will get the ostrich leather treatment (btw, this is not real ostrich leather). The details: Price: ¥880,000 (Approx. $10,526 USD) for the body Only 20 pieces will be produced Available thr
Greg Miller began the series County Fair in 2005, after happening upon the National Date Festival in Indio, California. The common photographic themes prevalent at fairs like the kitsch, the animals and the carnival workers were not interesting to Miller. Instead, it was the fair’s piazza-like orientation that recalled for Miller the experience of photographing in Italy, which he had been doing on and off for five years prior
With the D90′s successor it looks like Nikon are finally getting serious about the DSLR video game. The newly launched D7000 is a huge improvement in video functionality over previous Nikon’s and even has a few surprises up its sleeve.
Steidl recently published Simon’s book Contraband which includes photographs taken at both the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Federal Inspection site and the U.S. Postal Service International Mail Facility at John F. Kennedy International Airport. From November 16th 2009 to November 20th 2009, Simon remained on site at JFK and continuously photographed items detained or seized from passengers and express mail entering the United States from abroad. Simon has an upcoming show at Gagosian Gallery (Beverly Hills, CA) September 22- November 6, 2010.
Among the conversations was one about what makes a photograph good. And I was thinking after talking that it’s relatively easy to say what makes a photo bad, how to categorize failures, lack of success. But to be able to say what makes a photograph good is much more difficult. Much in the same way it’s easy for people to be generally critical or negative and for some reason it’s more difficult to praise and recognize the positive.
Nikon’s second big announcement today (the other is the hot new D7000) is the SB700 speedlight, a smaller version of the great SB900 and an overpriced replacement for the SB600 (although the SB600 is still available). Nikon makes some of the best flashes
Nikon’s hot new video-shooting D7000 is – on paper – a replacement for the D90. In reality, it puts pretty much every other Nikon crop-frame SLR to shame, and will sit bang in-between the still strong D90 and the top-end D300s. To show you just how good t
Pennsylvania Homeland Security has been spying on anti-drilling activists, taking down names of attendees at meetings and even a screening of a documentary on drilling; these dossiers on peaceful p…
Michael Itkoff: Hi Joerg, I’ve just returned from a government sponsored photo tour of a few cities in eastern China and thought it might be an interesting catalyst for discussion.
As a foot soldier in J. Edgar Hoover’s domestic intelligence program, Withers helped the FBI gain a front-row seat to the civil rights and anti-war movements in Memphis.
Much of his undercover work helped the FBI break up the Invaders, a Black Panther-styled militant group that became popular in disaffected black Memphis in the late 1960s and was feared by city leaders.
Yet, Withers focused on mainstream Memphians as well.
The Association of Photographers, which has just announced its 2010 Photographers Awards winners, has been forced to cancel its ceremony as its members “continue to suffer from the economic downturn”