Industry News: Sony Wants to Buy Tamron in What Woud Be a 'Massive Shakeup' for the Lens Market
Japanese lens maker Tamron said last Thursday that it had received an acquisition proposal from photography and consumer electronics giant Sony, and that it has established a committee to review its options. The non-binding proposal would turn Tamron into a wholly owned subsidiary of Sony, reported Reuters. No financial details were disclosed. "This would be, to put it mildly, a massive shake-up in the photography market, that could end up having profound impacts on the lenses available to photographers using other systems in the coming years," noted DP Review.
The Poetry of the Swerve at the Armory
French artist and composer Céleste Boursier-Mougenot has expanded his monumental sound installation, Clinamen, to its largest iteration to date, now on view at the Park Avenue Armory. For those who track his work—perhaps remembering his smaller, bird-and-guitar installations or an earlier iteration of this piece at SFMOMA, in 2017—the sheer scale here is breathtaking. Spanning 55,000 square feet, the vast, shadowy drill hall has been punctuated by t...

