Inspiration

It’s dangerous to look at an artist’s work and make too many assumptions about his or her character. In art there is artifice; there is always a strong chance it will misinform. If, however, you look at the photography of Arthur Leipzig, you will likely draw conclusions about the photographer that are entirely correct.

Woke up this morning to find this picture on CNN.com. A second later I realized it may be the most romantic picture I've ever seen: prehistoric lovers locked in an eternal embrace. Forget Doisneau's Parisian lovers kissing—this is really timeless.—DS

It got better: Klinko said in his suit that Ball was extorting him by threatening to make public certain “intimate” emails and sexually explicit photographs that Klinko had exchanged with Romero. The photos included shots showing Klinko in what the Post colorfully called a “sex romp” with two other women.

American Photo Images of the Year 2009 main image

Slate's top story today dissects the ways that cellphone cameras have changed our collective lives for the better and for the worse—although mostly for the worse. Michael Agger's piece includes several insightful musings, although I wish a few of them had been drawn out into complete thoughts. Like this intriguing idea: The more difficult question, the one that lurks outside the media glare, is how the cell phone camera is altering our private lives.

Or an open page, more specifically, an open Web page. Because Jarvis, like a wave of fellow photographers, now publishes a blog. Chasejarvis.com/blog is linked to Jarvis' main Web page, but it is not a promotional tool. It was designed as a place to quickly disseminate information to a wide audience, a place for discussion and sharing, and a place to foster relationships.

As promised earlier, he's the expanded QA with Andy Goetze, proprietor of StockPhotoTalk, the first and likely best known blog to cover the wild wild stock photography industry. For more from this series of American Photo's Innovators of 2006, go here.-Jay DeFoore

On Monday, the photo world lost one of its beloved personalities, Ruth Bernhard. Famously inspired by Edward Weston to take her photography seriously, the 101-year-old German-born photographer was a contemporary of Ansel Adams and Imogen Cunningham and a teacher of Michael Kenna. Yet her name does not reside on the tip of most people's tongues, as these do. Her Stephen White, Berhard's photography dealer in L.

After you New Yorkers vote on Tuesday be sure to check out the effects of the foreign policy this country voted into office in 2000 and 2004 at the Pomegranite Gallery, which is currently showing images of Iraq and the people unlucky enough to be living there over the past three years.Farah Nosh, who took this image, gets top billing because she first tipped us off to the show, but it also features fine work by two other not-so-shabby photojournalists: Tyler Hicks of The New York Times and Time

Having grown up in Texas I'll always remember Richards as But in the photo community, Richards will be remembered for an unfortunate Texas Monthly cover in which her head was spliced onto the body of a model striding a Harley-Davidson motorcycle.