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Roman Vishniac: Rediscovering his photographic and enigmatic genius

 
 

The International Center of Photography in New York is presenting an intriguing show of hundreds of photographs by the Russian-American photographer Roman Vishniac from Jan. 18 to May 5, 2013. The title of the exhibition is "Roman Vishniac: Rediscovered," but a better title might have been "The Enigmatic Roman Vishniac."...

New York teen’s long-lost, candid footage of Marilyn Monroe found after half century

He was just a 14-year-old kid from the Bronx, but he captured footage of one of the biggest movie stars of all time at the height of her powers. The year was 1955 and teenager Peter Mangone was so obsessed with Marilyn Monroe, he skipped school in hopes of spotting her near the hotel in Manhattan where she was staying after her divorce from Joe...

Extreme macro photos of food look both gorgeous and grotesque

 
 

You've heard of Macro photography but how about über-Macro photography? That's one way, perhaps, to describe the work of San Francisco commercial and fine art photographer Caren Alpert who uses an electron microscope to capture striking extreme close-ups of food.

Who would have thought a shrimp tail at 230x...

‘Faking It’: New Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibit puts on a magic show of photo manipulation

 
 

Today, The New York Museum of Metropolitan Art opened a new photography exhibition to the public that showcases more than 200 manipulated images created by analog techniques between the 1840s and 1990s. Titled titled Faking It: Photo Manipulation Before Photoshop, the show runs through January 27, 2013, and is a great...