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photography stories: 56 news summaries

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 Bloomberg Blasts 
 'Photo Op' Flyover  

Chain of communication broke down on DoD photo op

Apr 27, 09 5:14 PM CDT
(Newser) - New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg is livid over a Department of Defense photo op that sent two planes buzzing over lower Manhattan today, ABC News reports. Bloomberg called the flyover “ill-conceived” and expressed ire over the DoD's failure to notify him. "Poor judgment would be a nice... More »

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New York City • New York • photography • Michael Bloomberg • panic • 9/11 attacks • Air Force One

(Newser) - Online image libraries combined with widely available pro-quality photographic equipment are creating a new—and potentially lucrative—outlet for amateur shutterbugs, USA Today reports. Stock photo behemoth Getty Images officially joins forces with Flickr today, but the screening process is tough: From Flickr’s online library of 3 billion... More »

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Internet • photography • Flickr • Getty Images • stock photos • iStockphoto





 Ouch! 
 Madonna Debuts 
 Bandaged Look 


Still shooting 'raunchy' photos at 50, will she be sexing it up 70?

Jan 20, 09 6:25 PM CST
(Newser) - So much for aging gracefully. Madonna posed for promo shots for her Hard Candy CD in an all-white getup with bandages at chest and wrist, "looking as though she’d sustained several injuries,” though at 50 she remains in exquisite shape, the Daily Mail reports. The ensemble was... More »

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photography • aging • promotion • Madonna • aging process • Hard Candy • Guy Ritchie

 Fed-Up Photog 
 Ready to 
 Sue Moore 

Filmmaker used iconic pic without permission

Jan 15, 09 8:33 AM CST
(Newser) - Michael Moore may have gone too far this time: Prize-winning photographer Michael Yon is readying a lawsuit against the filmmaker for using one of his iconic photos from Iraq without permission, the New York Post reports. The image of an American soldier carrying the bloody body of an Iraqi child... More »

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Iraq • photography • lawsuit • photograph • Michael Moore • copyright infringement • photojournalist • Michael Yon

 Journal's Year in Pictures 

See the year again, for the first time

Dec 24, 08 8:55 PM CST
(Newser) - Rupert Murdoch always said he’d make the Wall Street Journal more visually interesting, and it doesn’t get much more visually interesting than the 2008 “Year in Photos” feature the paper began today. You can see many of the Journal’s selections, spanning global conflict, the financial... More »

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Wall Street Journal • photography • photograph • photojournalism • Best of 2008

Mug Shots Are Cheap Thrills for Media, Readers

Print, web outlets get booking photos free, and find lots of fans

Dec 8, 08 1:20 PM CST
(Newser) - Print and web publishers are cashing in a curious American obsession: mug shots. Not just celebrities, whose how-the-mighty-have-fallen appeal is obvious, but pictures of regular folk arrested for pederasty, assault or simply loitering. Web editions of Newsday and the Palm Beach Post, for example, run sections of nothing but booking... More »

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online media • crime • photography • journalism • print journalism • schadenfreude • voyeurism

 Bettie Page 
 in Coma After 
 Heart Attack 

Pinup legend critically ill in Los Angeles hospital

Dec 6, 08 4:28 AM CST
(Newser) - Bettie Page is in intensive care after suffering a heart attack, the AP reports. The '50s pinup queen is critically ill in a Los Angeles-area hospital, her agent said. According to a family friend, Page, 85, is in a coma. "I would not deny that," said her agent,... More »

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photography • model • heart attack • pinup • Bettie Page

 Charity Pinup Book 
 Coaxes Sarandon 
 Into Buff 

At 62, actress mixes with starlets half her age

Nov 17, 08 11:02 AM CST
(Newser) - You might not expect to see 62-year-old Susan Sarandon in a group of starlets bringing the sexy back, but she, along with Kate Hudson, Denise Richards and others, is baring much for celebrated photographer Timothy White’s Hollywood Pinups, a coffee-table book recreating the risqué look of the 1940s. Sarandon... More »

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photography • celebrity • Susan Sarandon • pinup

Flash! Here's What's New
in Photo Gear

Spy pens, 3-D cameras and new lens technologies on display

Sep 26, 08 12:38 PM CDT
(Newser) - The biggest photography-gear expo on the globe, Photokina, got under way this week in Germany as manufacturers rolled out everything from state-of-the-art lenses to geotagging devices. Wired takes a look:
  1. Fuji’s FinePix Real 3D System incorporates dual lenses that capture separate images, then meshes them into a single
... More »

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technology • camera • photography • digital photography • Top Gear

GLOSSIES

 We Must Not Ignore This Photo 

Though some are 'disgusted,' witnessing the 'Falling Man' is vital, author says

Sep 11, 08 4:52 PM CDT
(Newser) - The “Falling Man” photo reproduced worldwide has disappeared from respectable media, Tom Junod writes in Esquire, but to avert our eyes is to pretend the horrific choices made Sept. 11, 2001, don’t exist. “We have somehow taken it upon ourselves to deem their deaths unworthy of witness,... More »

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terrorism • New York City • World Trade Center • photography • September 11 • Associated Press • terrorist attack • jumpers • Tom Junod • Richard Drew

Vogue's India Poverty Shoot Pits Couture vs. Culture

Mag touts barrier-breaking 'power of fashion;' 'downright distasteful,' others say

Sep 2, 08 12:07 PM CDT
(Newser) - Vogue India is taking heat for a haute couture fashion spread that uses poverty-ridden locals for models, the New York Times reports. A toothless, barefoot man holding a $200 Burberry umbrella and a rumpled baby in a $100 Fendi bib are just two examples that have irked some critics in... More »

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fashion • India • photography • Vogue • poverty • fashion designer • fashion industry

product review

Nikon's New Camera May Exceed Hype

It's the first so-called SLR to allow users to shoot high-def movies

Aug 27, 08 6:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Nikon D90 isn’t just another shiny new camera: it’s a “mind-blowing, game-changing” hunk of high-tech equipment, David Pogue writes in the New York Times. Why? It’s incredibly fast, has an amazing range of lenses and comes with a ton of gizmos. But here’s the... More »

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technology • digital camera • photography • Nikon

 Pitt Shoots Family for Mag Cover

Actor-turned-photog's pics in W mag

Aug 26, 08 11:01 AM CDT
(Newser) - Brad Pitt has photographed Angelina Jolie and their six children for the November cover of W magazine, sources tell Fashion Week Daily. The photography hobbyist, who once got a Littman 45 single camera from Jolie as a birthday gift, snapped the pics last week at their French chateau. More »

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Angelina Jolie • Brad Pitt • photography • magazine industry • celebrity parents • celebrity baby

 Flickr Users Help ID
 Archival Photos

Historical archives find new life online

Jul 29, 08 12:50 PM CDT
(Newser) - Flickr users are helping the Library of Congress identify photos in its historical archives, reports USA Today. So far, users have supplied information on 500 photos featured in Flickr's "The Commons" project, which drew 8.2 million views in just 6 months. Both partners are "stunned by... More »

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social networking • Internet • photography • Flickr • file sharing • Library of Congress • The Commons

OPINION

 Did Iconic
 Photo Drive
 Soldier's Death? 

Photographer reflects on the power of a moment captured

Jul 13, 08 9:48 AM CDT
(Newser) - A photo turned an American medic in Iraq into a hero, showing him carrying an Iraqi child to safety. But the photographer, Warren Zinn, wonders whether it also contributed to his suicide. Joseph Dwyer suffered post-traumatic stress disorder after returning from Iraq; Zinn worries, in the Washington Post, whether his... More »

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US military • photography • overdose • soldier • PTSD • Iraq war • heroism

analysis

 Has Airbrushing
 Gone Too Far? 

Digital Barbie-fication of women called unhealthy trend

May 3, 08 4:57 PM CDT
(Newser) - Shutterbugs have long altered pics, but now critics are cringing over the effects of airbrushing on young girls. French lawmakers have even approved a law against inciting "excessive thinness." But would such a move work in America? Maybe not, "but there are a whole lot of impressionable... More »

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women • beauty • photography • eating disorder • photo editing • digital retouching • magazine industry • altered photos

 Naked Truth in Cheney Shades? 

The web wonders if the VP is looking at a naked woman rather than fly fishing

Apr 11, 08 1:02 PM CDT
(Newser) - The man who famously shot his hunting partner may have another leisure-sport scandal on his hands—this time involving the image of a naked woman. Bloggers are obsessively analyzing a close-up photo released by the White House of Dick Cheney fly fishing, because of racy image that appears to be... More »

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blogosphere • Dick Cheney • weird • nudity • photography • fishing

Carla Nude Pic Fetches $91K
at Christie's

1993 portrait of Sarko's wife goes for 20 times expected price

Apr 10, 08 8:11 PM CDT
(Newser) - Sarkozy isn't the only one who gets to see his wife in the buff: a collector paid $91,000 for a photograph of a naked Carla Bruni at Christie's today. The auction house expected Michel Comte's 1993 portrait of the French first lady to sell for no more than $4,... More »

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Nicolas Sarkozy • art • Christie's • photography • auction • art collector • art auction • Carla Bruni

Nude Photo of Sarkozy's Wife Up for Auction

Ex-supermodel's
B&W image expected
to fetch at least $3K

Mar 25, 08 3:27 PM CDT
(Newser) - A black-and-white photograph of Carla Bruni will go up for sale at an auction next month, Reuters reports. Christie’s expects the portrait of Nicolas Sarkozy's bride to attract a final bid of $3,000 to $4,000, and the auction house's announcement of the sale on the eve of... More »

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Nicolas Sarkozy • France • Christie's • photography • auction • Cecilia Sarkozy • Carla Bruni

Experts Work to Create Ways
to Identify Altered Photos

New tools can sniff out fakes

Mar 17, 08 12:45 PM CDT
(Newser) - As photo doctoring grows ever more sophisticated—and common—so does the art of “digital forensics,” or identifying fakes. Lighting is among the most tell-tale signs of a photo that’s been altered, reports Technology Review, because it’s hard to get it consistent. Still, current tools... More »

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photography • software • photograph • photo editing • Photoshop • altered photos • digital forensics • fake photos

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