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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."...
A month or so ago, IR's Dan Havlik reported on 10 early color photographs of Paris and, to all our surprise, it turns out there are more: a total of 85 in all at the “Paris 1914” website.
These are more softly colored Autochrome images that remind me of the first time I saw Paris. It was through the scratched window...
We recently shared early color photographs of Paris and Russia and now here are a few more images showing another part of old Europe in color: Ireland in 1913. These photos were captured by Marguerite Mespoulet and Madeleine Mignon-Alba, two French women who documented Ireland in 1913 as part of an international project...
"Hurley is a warrior with his camera, and would go anywhere or do anything to get a picture."
-- Lionel Greenstreet, First Officer of the Expedition Ship Endurance.
"Mad" Frank Hurley was a photographer who by any measure was bigger than life. Compared to him, Mad Max was just an out-of-work traffic cop in a bad...
Some five years ago, photo-sharing service Flickr launched The Commons in cooperation with the Library of Congress. Since then, 56 libraries, archives and museums from around the globe have added more than 250,000 copyright-free photographs to the catalog.
To celebrate The Commons' fifth birthday, the Library of Congress asked Flickr Common contributors to share their most...
"He was… a photographer of such authority and originality that his work remains a benchmark against which much of the most sophisticated contemporary photography measures itself. The pictures that he made… are seductively and deceptively simple, wholly poised, reticent, dense with experience, mysterious, and pure."
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Last November, we shared with you a treasure trove of rare, color images of life in Paris in the 1920s. And now here are some extraordinary color photographs captured during an even earlier time period -- pre-revolutionary Russia on the eve of World War I.
The images, 10 of which are shown below, were shot by Russian...
Photographer Anton Orlov made an amazing discovery after he purchased a French stereoscopic camera at a cluttered antiques store recently: a collection of rare images of the first World War were stashed inside.
The images, a few of which are shown below, were in negative form on thin plates of glass inside a Jumelle...
As a working photographer, I have met the king of rock and roll, the king of Norway, and other royalty. Yet I never imagined that there was a king (or queen, for that matter) of photography. Certainly, no one ever called Henri Cartier-Bresson, Richard Avedon or even Annie Leibovitz that. So who is this king of...
Is this or is it not an image of the iceberg that sank the Titanic? That's what potential buyers will have to consider when a photograph purportedly of the infamous iceberg goes up for auction at RR Auction in Nashua, N.H. next month.
The photo was captured by the captain of another steam ship, the S.S. Etonian, just...
Yesterday, we shared a short video with you showing the history of photography in 76 seconds. That brief film included an image of the first ever color photograph, an additive projected image of a tartan ribbon captured in 1861 by Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell.
Flash forward just more than fifty years later...
Happy Cyber Monday!
To help get you back in the spirit of taking photos rather than just buying camera gear, here's an inspiring video (just over a minute long) titled "A Short History of Photography."
The clip starts with an image of Ibn al-Haytham, the scientist who helped develop the camera obscura -- which is...
The 86th annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade with be held this Thursday, Nov. 22, with millions of people lining the streets around Central Park in New York City (and tens of millions watching live on TV) to get a glimpse of the colorful gigantic balloons and floats.
While the balloons have changed over time -- the...
Like lots of other kids, I spent Saturdays in our local, somewhat faded movie theater, my eyes glued to the screen as cowboys and Indians wildly rode across a vast, empty landscape. While all of us kids wanted to be cowboys, none of us ever thought about playing one of the Wild West photographers. After all, in the...
World War II ravaged Europe with a devastation few of us can comprehend. Whole cities were flattened and millions of soldiers and civilians were killed. It is hard to imagine what it looked some 70 years ago in the aftermath of war. On a visit to Normandy, France, I stayed in the picturesque town of Les Andelys, a small...
