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Aftermath of Graphic Pulitzer Winning Photo Sparks Ethics Debate
News outlets debate how to show the powerful award-winning image.
Canon Confirms 5D Mark III Light Leak Issue In Some Situations
Too much light from the display is playing havoc with the 5D Mark III's AE sensor in some specific scenarios
Upcoming Documentary Covers the Death and Rebirth of Polaroid Film
“Time Zero” covers the last year of Polaroid film, those who mourned its demise and those who tried to save it.
Powerful Images of War and Its Aftermath Take This Year's Pulitzers
Photographs documenting the immediate chaos after a suicide attack and a soldier's struggle with PTSD received top honors

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Canon Announces a Move to Human-Free Camera Production

Company Spokesman says Japan’s digital camera production will rely totally on robots in the next few years.
- By Kathleen Davis on May 16, 2012
Japan's Canon Inc. is moving toward fully automating digital camera production in an effort to cut costs. The move to totally rely on robots and have no human workers will likely be completed in the next few years, perhaps as soon as 2015, according to company spokesman Jun Misumi.
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World's Longest Photo Will Cover Nearly a Mile

Clare Newtown’s nearly mile-long panorama will be on exhibit June 1-9.
- By Kathleen Davis on May 15, 2012
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The Olympic Games are all about setting records, but why leave it just to the athletes? London Artist Clare Newton is attempting to create the world's longest photograph in time for the London Olympics. She’s been working on the project, called Jump4London, for nearly two years, photographing thousands of children and adults from all walks of life across London. She’s combined the over 109,000 images of people jumping into a giant panorama photograph that stretches over 1 kilometer (nearly a mile) long.
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Famous Photographers Talk About the Photos that Got Away in a New Book

The popular book about photography contains essays by 62 photographers—but not a single image.
- By Kathleen Davis on May 14, 2012
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Photographs Not Taken is a photo book that notes contributions from some big names in photography including Jim Goldberg, Emmet Gowin, Todd Hido, Nadav Kander, Mary Ellen Mark. But the 62 photographers that contributed to this book that is now in its second run after the first edition sold out in March, doesn’t contain a single image. Instead, editor Will Steacy solicited essays about the images that for one reason or another the photographers couldn’t take.
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World’s Most Expensive Camera Sells for $2.8 Million at Auction

The 1923 Prototype Leica O-series was one of only 25 ever produced.
- By Kathleen Davis on May 14, 2012
If you think you drop a lot of money on every latest model DSLR, get ready to feel thrifty. There’s a new record for world’s most expensive camera: a Leica 0-Series camera, which was a 1923 prototype for the groundbreaking Leica A, the first commercially successful 35mm compact camera sold at WestLicht Photographica auction in Vienna for €2.16 million (about $2.8 million).
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Aday.org Aims to Photograph Everyday Life Around the World on May 15th

It's kinda like "We Are The World" only everyone will be taking pictures instead of singing
- By Stan Horaczek on May 14, 2012
Swedish non-profit foundation Expressions of Humankind want May 15th, 2012 to be the most remembered day in history. They're trying to accomplish this by asking as many people as possible to photograph the things important to their daily lives. Then, after the photos are uploaded Aday.org, they promised to present them in an interesting and rather comprehensive way, so we can all experience the world through photography.
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Photo Ban at 2012 Olympics Deemed “Unenforceable”

Tickets for the 2012 London Games say attendees cannot post images or video online but officials admit there’s not much they can do to enforce it
- By Kathleen Davis on May 11, 2012
Ticket holders for the 2012 Summer Olympics are likely confused about what they are allowed to photograph and how they can use the photos they take. The terms and conditions of ticket purchases, as they currently stand, prohibit ticket holders from posting photos and personal footage of the Olympics on sites such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.
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Pulitzer Winning Combat Photographer Horst Faas Has Died

“A reporter first and a photographer second,” the legendary AP photographer created a new standard for war photography
- By Kathleen Davis on May 11, 2012
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Legendary two-time Pulitzer Prize winning photographer Horst Faas died in Munich, Germany yesterday. Faas was a native of Germany and joined the Associated Press there in 1956. Over his career he photographed wars, revolutions, the Olympic Games, and much more, but he was best known for covering the Vietnam war, where he was severely wounded in 1967.
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Jeff Wall Photo Fetches $3.6 Million At Auction

A 1992 photograph by Jeff Wall has fetched a record $3.6 million, making it the third most expensive photo ever sold at auction
- By Tim Barribeau on May 10, 2012
As part of a contemporary art sale at Christie's auction house, a photograph by Jeff Wall fetched $3,666,500 — the most ever for a work of Wall's, and one of the most expensive pieces of photography of all time.
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San Francisco Store Offers Instant Tintype Portraits

Even amongst the most diehard lomo fan, tintypes might seem like a dead art, but a store in San Francisco will still happily shoot a portrait of you in just 20 minutes
- By Tim Barribeau on May 9, 2012
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Photobooth is a store in the Mission of San Francisco; it is a combined film photography storefront, gallery space, and portrait studio for the near-lost art of the tintype. Coolhunting put together this video of a behind the scenes look at how photographer Michael Shindler snaps photos of people and produces incredible one-of-a-kind portraiture using this technique.
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The Future of Photography: A Look at the Latest Trends in Camera Technology

What's in store? High-resolution images, smaller and smarter gear, and instantaneous wireless image transfer
- By Philip Ryan on May 9, 2012
With so many new cameras and lenses launched recently, now is the best time to take a look at how the latest technology will likely play out in the coming year. We see three trends reshaping photography in the near future: Lenses evolving to accommodate the needs of video capture, sensors emerging in new sizes and designs, and Wi-Fi connectivity being built into more cameras.Remaking the Lens:
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