Photography News

The work of Magnum photographer Mark Power - who covered the fall of the Berlin Wall and won a prestigious award for his interpretation of the Shipping Forecast - is the subject of a major exhibition at ... via University of Cambridge News Stories

“We wanted to find a way to get great home cooks in on the action.”

Two decades ago, winning a top-notch cooking contest was a proud moment of little consequence. via The Orlando Sentinel

“There's no real science or even fairness behind the picking of winners and losers”

Journalists are slagged all the time ... by readers, politicians, each other. It's OK, we can take it. via The Post and Courier

“Top Arts provides students with exceptional experience of the arts industry”

Hills Picassos Cassie Meadows, above, and Alex Maisey, left, A CONSERVATIONIST and a budding nurse have been put in the spotlight with their artwork going on display at the National Gallery of Victoria. via Ranges Trader Mail

“It's all about what Jared Diamond calls 'landscape amnesia.' We accept it. I'm trying to say, 'It's not OK.' ”

Artist Maya Lin has always had a deep feeling for the land. As a child, she roamed the leafy woods in southern Ohio, listening to songbirds that filled the forest. via Journal Gazette

“We have over 100,000 in the 360-degree photos [in stock]”

By Anne Marie D. Lee It was in 1981 that the Globuscope camera, a 3.5-pound handheld 360 rotational camera, was introduced to the world. via Incentive

A Reuters news agency photographer won the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news photography on Monday for a picture of a Burmese soldier shooting dead a Japanese video cameraman during a last September's ... via Burmanet

Tamron's various 28-300mm "ultra" zooms have been best sellers since their first model of this type was introduced in 1999. via Shutterbug

“This prize goes to all of us - all of us who are The Boston Globe.”

Honored for range of critical essays Mark Feeney addressed colleagues in a packed Globe newsroom. via The Boston Globe

WATSONVILLE, CA, April 7, 2008 ExpoImaging Inc., developer of innovative camera accessories, including the ExpoDisc Digital White Balance Filter and the ExpoAperture2 Depth-of-Field Guide, today announced the ... via Digital Photo Journal

“Lights ... Digital Camera ... ACTIONS!”

A new interactive publication brings great flexibility to every photographer using Adobe Photoshop 7 through CS3 running on Windows or Mac. via TechWeb.com

“Both the written and multimedia stories will provide information and immeasurable comfort, later on in life, when Melissa, Brian, and Elijah begin to search for answers about their mother, Carolynne”

Preston Gannaway hugs Rich St. Pierre near a photo of Carolynne St. Pierre at the Concord Monitor after winning the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography. via Concord Monitor

“Amid all the gloomy talk about journalism today, these are fine examples of high-quality journalism in all parts of the nation”

The Washington Post won six Pulitzer Prizes on Monday, including the public service medal for exposing shoddy treatment of America's war wounded at Walter Reed hospital, and the breaking-news award for coverage ... via The Dispatch

“They never stopped loving each other”

Are Evangeline Lilly and Dominic Monaghan back together? 40 min 21 sec ago by justingirl1989 Lost stars Evangeline Lilly, 28, and Dominic Monaghan, 31, are said to have quietly rekindled their romance this ... via Popsugar.com

“We want to expose the Dallas art community to work that they've quite potentially never seen if they weren't able to travel, these works that in some ways may be a little controversial for one thing, a little strong”

A bit of Britain has arrived in Texas, thanks to English pop star George Michael and his Texan partner Kenny Goss. via EagleTribune.com, North Andover, MA

“This is the first competition I have participated so it is also my first time winning a contest”

Megan Porter with her grand prize entry 'The Lost Art'. Photos: P. Marilyn The winners of BIG Magazine Photography contest were announced during a prize presentation ceremony held at the Tourism Development ... via Borneo Bulletin

“I felt good for about half the race, but when I got to the bottom of the bridge, I kind of fell apart. My training was not what it should be, so these conditions really took their toll.”

The 31st annual Cooper River Bridge Run across the Ravenel Bridge took place Saturday April 5, 2008. via The Post and Courier

“Fine art is the only thing you cannot punch a button for. You must do it the old-fashioned way. Stay up and really burn the midnight oil. There are no compromises.”

"Fine art is the only thing you cannot punch a button for. You must do it the old-fashioned way. via Art Knowledge News

Eighteen major women artists from the Coast will be featured in an exhibit of two-dimensional works at the Ohr-O'Keefe Museum of Art. The show opens with a reception from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday and runs through May 31.

'The Second Dimension: Painters (and Friends) Look at Pottery' is the second part of a themed series of spring exhibits at Ohr-O'Keefe. The first, 'Photographers on Painting,' is on display at the museum's transitional location at the Swetman House.

The artists, working primarily in painting and printmaking, who are featured in the Second Dimension invitational are Susie Ranager, Norma Seward, Joey Rice, Sandra Halat, Patt Odom, Judy MacInnis, Mary Hardy, Kat Fitzpatrick, Brenda Randolph, Lyn Brown, Terry Blake Edwards, Vicki Niolet, Paulette Dove, Joyce King, Mary Pat Forest, Elizabeth Veglia, Liz Schaffer and Susan Carranza. All of these artists live on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, have shown widely and have worked for years as professional artists; many were in the popular woman's art group ArtWave. Read more

For centuries China has been fabled for its performers: ballet dancers who double as acrobats; male opera singers who impersonate women; artists who make theatrical ink scrolls. This national phenomenon is extended in ''Look at Me!'' a cheeky, spiky Lafayette College exhibition of recent Chinese photographs that somehow involve performance, sometimes by the artists themselves.

Guest curator Dan Mills is a Bucknell University gallery director who has exhibited his own works in China. He's particularly intrigued by rituals among the ruins of old buildings and ways of life. In a starkly beautiful, tinted gelatin-silver print, a man videotapes the bamboo-roofed, demolished former home of the photographers, the husband-and-wife team of RongRong & Inri. Read more