The British fashion photographer Corinne Day, who will be forever associated with an early shoot featuring a 15- year old Kate Moss, died of a brain tumor at the age of 45 over the weekend. Day was a key member of the “grunge” fashion photography movement of the early 1990s, that emerged from the influential style magazine The Face, and included other shooters such as Juergen Teller and David Sims.
Herman Leonard, the photographer who virtually invented the cool, black and white, smoky jazz portrait, died last weekend, at age 87 in Los Angeles. In a prolific career spanning several decades, he shot jazz’s most enduring icons including Charlie Parker, Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, and many others.
Frank Sinatra, NYC, 1956. Herman Leonard/Courtesy of the Catherine Edelman Gallery
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This week in photography news: Samsung announced details on their highly anticipated new DualView cameras, BP admits to – yet again – Photoshoping images of the oil spill, and much more… [click to continue…]
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Got a soda bottle? Got a camera? Now you can take better photographs with the portable bottle tripod that transforms any ordinary bottle into a picture-taking machine. Available in three color combinations at Semsons.com, this innovative invention is ideal for night shots, self portraits, and those awkward, off-center “self-timer” shots. With its simple swivel design that requires no needed instructions, the bottle cap tripod is sure to please any everyday photographer. (Via Toxel.)
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Photoshop the App is available to download for free for your iPhone. Now you can take those quick phone snaps and perform a routine cleanup. You can flip, stretch, rotate and crop, easily.
Adding a free Photoshop.com account allows you to send your images and save them without taking up too much for your phone’s memory.
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Chicago native Amanda Rivkin‘s work spans from documenting Blagojevich and Obama to her series on Gaza and Ethiopia. She strives to capture the story behind the headlines with her unrelenting lens.
Her latest work, Obamaland, was featured at The Coop in Chicago and at the 10th International Photography Gathering in Aleppo, Syria.
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The Impossible Project declares that Polaroid film will return to the market by mid-2010. Their project rests on the hope that there is enough of a niche market to make the film sustainable.
How are they doing this? They purchased an old Dutch manufacturing plant complete with Polaroid machines. Their challenge is to recreate the look of the original Polaroid film, which uses now expensive and outdated products.
Aakash Nihalani
The Carmichael Gallery of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles has a dynamite show opening next Thursday, January 21st. Photos of Mark Jenkins and Aakash Nihalani‘s awesome street installations will be presented in their shows entitled Meaning Is Overrated show, and On and Off (Often On), respectively. Definitely check this out if you are in LA, or, if not, visit their sites for some mind-bending work.
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