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State of the Art
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A group blog from the editors of American Photo magazine. Send news and tips to editor@popphoto.com.
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Blurb to Host Free 11-day-long Photo Book Workshop in NYC

Are you going to be in the New York City area any time between now and Halloween? If so, head on down to SoHo for a very cool series of photography workshops being put on by Blurb.com for FREE. Star...

19 oct 10

Find the Perfect Camera Bag With Help From BagExposure.com

There are literally thousands upon thousands of camera bags out there meant for everything from storing and protecting your gear while you traverse the Alps, to comfortably carrying your camera on a ...

18 oct 10

Artists Paints Photo-Like Images Looking Out of a Rain-Soaked Car Windshield

Which image above is the painting and which is the photograph? Hopefully the credits dont give it away. Top: Image by Gregory Thiekler. Bottom: Image by Dan Bracaglia. While a rainy evening, like t...

15 oct 10

Artist Photographs Happy Meal Once a Week for 180 Days, No Change in Appearance

The infamous Happy Meal. Top: Day 1, Bottom: Day 180. Photographs by Sally Davies. What originally started out as an argument over how long it would take for a McDonalds Happy Meal to get moldy, turn...

13 oct 10

British Wildlife Photography Awards Announced

Photograph by Steve Young/courtesy of the British Wildlife Photography Awards 2010. The winners of the British Wildlife Photography Awards have been announced—this year’s grand prize went to Steve Yo...

08 oct 10

Lego(Leica) Maniac Builds Worlds First Lego M8...and it Works

A Leica M8 and its doppleganger. One Lego(Leica) Manaic used a $55 Lego Digital Camera Kit, some black bricks (plus one red circle piece) and a bit of creativity to build his own working Leica M8 Le...

06 oct 10

Italian Project Photographs 28-Gigapixel-Imag es of Famous Paintings

The Birth of Venus by Botticelli. Top image: Zoomed all the way out. Bottom image: Zoomed all the way in on an eye. www.haltadefinizione.com Haltadefinizione or HAL9000 (Open the bay doors HAL), is a...

04 oct 10

Library of Congress Duplication Services offers reprints of famous American Photographs

Images like this famous portrait of President Abrham Lincoln are available as reprints. January 8, 1864. Gelatin Print. Photograph by Mathew B. Brady, Photographs Division, Library of Congress. My gr...

29 sep 10

Color Photographs Shed a Different Light on the Great Depression

Residents getting ready to serve the barbeque dinner at a local fair held in Pie Town, New Mexico, October 1940. Reproduction from a color slide. Photograph by Lee Russell. Prints and Photographs Div...

27 sep 10

Ariel Image of Devil Rays on the Move Takes First Prize in Environmental Photo Contest

Epoty.org/Bacroft. Photograph by Florian Sulz German conservation photographer Florian Shulz took the first place Environmental Photographer of the Year Award 2010 for his image of a few thousand Mu...

24 sep 10

Getty acquires, restores third Robert Johnson Image

Photo by Robert Johnson Estate/Hulton Archive/Getty Images Robert Johnson, the early-twentieth-century blues singer who, as the legend goes, made a deal with the Devil in exchange for his musical tal...

23 sep 10

Calling All College Students: Enter The InVision Photography Contest

Nick Nichols Alex Webb The little town of Bethlehem—Pennsylvania that is—will host an all-new photography festival the weekend of November 5 through 7, and if youre a photo student your work could be...

21 sep 10

Leaf Launches Worlds Highest Resolution Backs, 80MP

FROM OUR EDITORS AT PHOTOKINA: Leaf announced two new medium format backs, the Leaf Aptus-II 12 and the Aptus-II12R (with internal rotating sensor)—at 80MP they are the world’s highest resolution dig...

20 sep 10

For Sale: One Brand New NASA Hasselblad

For a little less than the price of a luxury automobile, you can join the ranks of Neil Armstrong and shoot with this bright yellow, made-for-NASA, Hasselblad camera. Included with the camera is a Bi...

17 sep 10

For Sale: One Brand New NASA Hasselblad

For a little less than the price of a luxury automobile, you can join the ranks of Neil Armstrong and shoot with this bright yellow, made for NASA, Hasselblad camera. Included with the camera is a B...

17 sep 10

Edward Burtynskys Fine-Art View of the Gulf Oil Spill

Oil Spill #2, Discoverer Enterprise, May 12, 2010 Edward Burtynsky. MetivierGallery.com It’s hard to believe, given the tragic scenario, that anyone could find beauty in such an ugly catastrophe as ...

14 sep 10

Nikons International Photography Competition showcases the microscopic

NikonSmallWorld.com Last years 4th place winner, James E Hayden, took this image of an Anglerfish ovary at 4X magnification. Nikon’s annual “International Small World Photography Competition” offers...

08 sep 10

John Chiara doesn’t just get behind the lens, he gets inside the camera

John Chiara is one of those photographers whose approach and craft is truly humbling in its creativity and scale. Based in California, John shoots one image a day using his home-built, larger-than-li...

07 sep 10

Red Bull announces winners of Illume action-photo competition

Chris Burkard’s landscape-style surf image won the grand-prize Illumination category. ©Chris Burkard/Red Bull Illume Red Bull announced the category winners of it international Illume 2010 competitio...

03 sep 10

Getty launches massive archive of American images

Getty Images has launched a massive online collection of 80,000 iconic American images—know as the Archive Photos collection—which were pulled from the world-renowned Hulton Archive. The images were...

27 aug 10

Jazz Photographer Herman Leonard Dies, Images Live on

http://www.hermanleonard.com/ World-renowned jazz photographer Herman Leonard passed away on Saturday, August 15, at the age of 87.  Tiny stages, filled with over-contrasted musicians, often il...

20 aug 10

Larry Sultan: Pictures From Home

Larry Sultan/Courtesy Stephen Wirtz Gallery Few photographic publications of the 1970s created the stir that Evidence did. The book seemed to vindicate the idea that a photograph could be beautiful e...

05 may 10

Year of the Tiger

Photo By John Isaac The wet whorl spun by this Bengal tiger’s tail is a reminder that contrary to popular belief, cats big and small love water — at least the ones inhabiting warmer climes, in this c...

16 mar 10

A Photographer's Guide To Social Media

The forward march of communications technology has left grammar in the dust. Tweets and text messages squeeze language into the smallest possible space. Blogs and Facebook posts are written in such h...

01 mar 10

The People Behind The Pics: Snowbound

To get an interesting angle, Manley used an extendable pole that he modified to support his camera. The photo ran in the Swedish magazine Åka Skidor. Canadian Jordan Manley is often asked which of hi...

12 feb 10

Two For The Show: Fashion's Top Tag Team Hits Prime Time

In the November/December issue of American Photo, we scooped the story of how fashion and celebrity photo tag team Markus Klinko and Indrani are venturing into reality TV with their own Bravo network...

11 feb 10

Freedom to Create

Decades of experience can lead to certain perks in the world of photography (oh, tremendous talent doesn’t hurt, either).  Just ask architectural photographer Tim Street-Porter. He has secured ...

05 feb 10

Parting Shot: Black Sea Wreck

Rafal Milach’s forbidden photo of a polluted harbor. CLOSE-UP: RAFAL MILACH Studied at: The Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice, Poland; the Institute of Creative Photography in Opava, Czech Republic Ap...

20 jan 10

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