The last London darkrooms
Last one out, please turn on the light is a survey of London’s remaining professional darkrooms, by Richard Nicholson. The photographs are well lit to reveal the beautiful machinery of an often gloomy...
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Electric photography
Wired has posted a gallery of beautiful electricity photographs by Hiroshi Sugimoto. For his latest project, called Lightning Fields, the award-winning photographer traded optics for electricity. He...
View ArticlePursuing the elusive shot
Blood, Sweat and Photographic Tears, the story of a wildlife photographer in pursuit of that rare and fleeting frame. Greg du Toit spent eight months camping out daily at a Kenyan watering hole,...
View ArticleLightroom presets
Presetpond is a community for sharing Lightroom and Aperture presets.
View ArticlePhoto tampering history
Hany Farid keeps an archive of photo tampering throughout history. Altering photographs to tell a different story is nothing new, it’s been happening for more than a hundred years. Stalin, Mao and...
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The first digital camera
Steve Sasson created the world’s first digital camera in 1976, while working at Kodak. He discusses the development of the camera in this video. It was a camera that didn’t use any film to capture...
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The ruins of Detroit
Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre photographed the the abandoned and decrepit structures of Detroit. Having photographed old buildings – “mainly disused theatres” – in Paris, they happened upon an...
View ArticleVideo portrait of Stephen Sasson
David Friedman posted a video portrait of Stephen Sasson, inventor of the digital camera. I mentioned the camera last year, it might be worth revisiting his discussion of its development and the patent...
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The London Blitz in colour
A selection of colour photos from the London Blitz by the Daily Mail.
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Faces Places ?
Faces Places (Visages Villages) is a wonderful film from Agnès Varda and JR. They’re super-cute, and the cinematography is gorgeous.
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