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  • The Shadow Catcher

    Author and photographer Marianne Wiggins has lived a life that could provide material for several volumes. A single mother at 17, she has lived in London, Paris and Brussels, chased tornadoes in Nevada, explored the Amazon Basin, and was married to Salman Rushdie during the most controversial era of his career. But she has never written about herself.
    • By Popphoto Staff on May 22, 2007


    Author and photographer Marianne Wiggins has lived a life that could provide material for several volumes.

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  • Tip of the Day: Travel Smart

    Less than 10 bucks gets you a bat bag made to hold up to two baseball bats. Less than 34 inches long, one of these bags can also be used to carry a tripod or lightstand. Available in many sporting goods stores, they have carrying straps with clips that let you hook them onto a fence or peg board. There’s also room for a small camera bag and an extra pocket for loose photo gear. — Reader tip from Jim Beatty O’Fallon, IL
    • By Popphoto Staff on May 22, 2007

    Less than 10 bucks gets you a bat bag made to hold up to two baseball bats. Less than 34 inches long, one of these bags can also be used to carry a tripod or lightstand. Available in many sporting goods stores, they have carrying straps with clips that let you hook them onto a fence or peg board. There’s also room for a small camera bag and an extra pocket for loose photo gear. — Reader tip from Jim Beatty O’Fallon, IL

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  • Autochrome Relics

    The photos, which have retained an amazing degree of color saturation over the century, turned out the be vintage autochromes — one-of-a-kind positives made from a delicate process that Steichen experimented with. One picture is presumed to made be by Charlotte Spaulding, Albright's mother, who left the images behind upon her death in 1939. Two of the 5x7 glass pieces are attributed to Steichen — one signed by him — making them exceedingly rare examples of the master's portraiture in this medium.
    • By Popphoto Staff on May 21, 2007

    You never know what might be lying around the house.
    The George Eastman House Collection will soon be showing three rare pieces

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  • Note to Self: Clean Out Cupboard

    Moreover, 96-year-old Charlotte Albright, Spaulding’s daughter, had been keeping them in a cupboard since her mother’s death in 1939, leaving them particularly vivid and well-preserved. (Above Photo: Charlotte Spaulding around 1908 by Edward Steichen from George Eastman House Collection)
    • By Popphoto Staff on May 21, 2007


    Anthony Bannon, director of the George Eastman House museum in Rochester, NY, unexpectedly ran across a bonanza last August wh

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  • Pick a dozen megapixels

    You can shoot at ISO 3200 at full resolution, and, with a bump down in resolution to 2.5MP, to ISO 6400. (We expect noisy images at those settings.) And yes, it has wide screen (16:9 format) capture, for both video and stills. No price announced as of yet. Look for the camera in July.—Dan Richards
    • By Popphoto Staff on May 21, 2007


    Have you noticed that 12 megapixels is the new 10 megapixels?

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  • How To Special: Brazilian Air Race

    The first thing I decided to do, was not to take shots at the competition. I found the trainings more exciting and full of opportunities, for example: at the end of individual training, each pilot decided to execute some acrobatics, leaving the , (as they called it) and land. The pilot in the photo above passed me at about 180 mph, I didn't see what he was doing but tried to be fast enough to follow the airplane movement.
    • By Popphoto Staff on May 21, 2007


    Photographer Chico Lima offers tips for great action shots and some exciting photos from the stunt-filled Brazi

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  • Tip of the Day: Make your own Tripod

    Need an emergency tripod for a small compact camera? All you need is a drill, 2-inch ¼-20 bolt, an empty bottle and a cork. Drill a 14-inch hole vertically through the cork’s center, insert the bolt and voilà, a tripod head. Now refill the bottle with water or sand, and there’s your camera support. — Reader Tip from S.V. Dragovic Geneva, Switzerland
    • By Popphoto Staff on May 21, 2007


    Need an emergency tripod for a small compact camera? All you need is a drill, 2-inch ¼-20 bolt, an empty bottle and a cork.

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  • What the Duck

    (click to view at full size)Check out more photography-related comics by Aaron Johnson updated regularly at www.whattheduck.net
    • By Popphoto Staff on May 21, 2007

    (click to view at full size)Check out more photography-related comics by Aaron Johnson updated regularly at www.whattheduck.net

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  • Aperture Event: May 23

    6:30 pmAperture Gallery547 W. 27th St., 4th FloorNYC
    • By Popphoto Staff on May 21, 2007

    With record-breaking prices going to wall-size prints such as Andreas Gursky's "99 cent II, Diptych" which sold for $3,346,456, it's not surprise that Aperture's Tip of the Tongue Heated Debate this week asks the age-old question, "Does size matter?" During this "light-hearted" debate, involving the audience as well as panelists, moderator Charlotte Cotton, head of cultural programs at Art + Commerce, will tease out the

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  • How Cool? Soo Cool!

    In the fall of 2005, Pop Photo readers showed their savvy when they voted Michael Soo of Cupertino, CA, Pop’s 2005 Photographer of the Year. — Peter Kolonia
    • By Popphoto Staff on May 18, 2007


    In the fall of 2005, Pop Photo readers showed their savvy when they voted Michael Soo of Cupertino, CA, Pop’s 2005 Photographer of the Year.  Michae

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