DIYPhotography Friday November 19, 2021
ZY Optics’s newly announced Zhongyi Lens Turbo II is a 0.72x speed booster for Nikon Z mount APS-C cameras. There are three versions available that let you use full-frame M42, Canon EF and Nikon F mount lenses on the new system with a wider field of view than you’d otherwise get on an APS-C body. It also gives you an extra stop of light and brings back some of that shallow depth of field. When you’re shooting video, you’ll get to use some of those classic lenses that people have been using with their other cameras for years, notes DIY Photography. Read the full Story >>
The New York Times Friday November 19, 2021
We recently spotlighted writer Patricia Morrisroe’s interview with Annie Liebovitz in The New York Times, on the occasion of Leibovitz’s new book of fashion imagery, Wonderland. The photos of Leibovitz featured in the article were taken by Gillian Laub, whose series “Family Matters” is on view at the International Center of Photography through Jan. 10, 2022. In a followup article at The Times, Laub talks about what it was like to take pictures of a photographic legend of Leibovitz’s stature—a job, she admits, that came “wth a ton of nerves.” Read the full Story >>
Yale Library Friday November 19, 2021
Yale University Library’s Beinecke Library has acquired a collection of more than 200 prints by photographer Gordon Parks, constituting one of the largest collections of the photographer’s work available for study in an institution. The prints were acquired directly from The Gordon Parks Foundation, notes the library. Designated as “study sets,” the group represents selections from 11 of Parks’s best known series and includes a print of his single best-known image—a portrait of Ella Watson, an African American custodial worker, titled “American Gothic.” Read the full Story >>
npr Friday November 19, 2021
After 24 years in the Navy, Chief Petty Officer Joshua Ives retired in 2015 and began sifting through more than 15,000 photographs he took during his time in Afghanistan. The result is “Noble Eagle,” a mixed-media project that is part documentary, part personal reflection. The title references Operation Noble Eagle, the name given to the military operation launched by the U.S. and Canadian governments after 9/11. “Simply put, I wanted to go to war because so many of my military brothers and sisters had been and I had not,” Ives tells NPR. Read the full Story >>
