Blind Wednesday October 5, 2022
Photographer Douglas Kirkland, whose intimate shots of Marilyn Monroe taken a year before her death helped cement his place among the most acclaimed celebrity photographers of the 20th century, died on October 2 at age 88. Kirkland’s career was jump-started when he was assigned a photo session with Monroe as a young staff photographer for Look Magazine, notes the Toronto Star. He went on to work at Life Magazine and shoot other legends of the era, including Audrey Hepburn, Jack Nicholson, Coco Chanel, John Lennon and others. At Twitter, photographer David Hume Kennerly called Kirkland “one of the kindest and most exuberant people I have ever met.” See also: Blind magazine.
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The Atlantic Wednesday October 5, 2022
Photography is a time machine, and PPD for one enjoys taking a visual journey through history. We call your attention to a recent post in The Atlantic’s In Focus photo blog that looks back at the year 1922. “A century ago, the newly established Irish Free State was descending into civil war, Russia was still enduring a terrible famine, construction of the Lincoln Memorial was completed in Washington, D.C., Benito Mussolini’s Fascist Party seized control of the Italian government, and more,” notes the blog.
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DP Review Wednesday October 5, 2022
When Capture One released its iPad app back in June, the company said it planned to have tethering support out in a future update. That time has come: Capture One has released an update for its iPad app that enables tethering support. Now, you can connect your camera to your iPad, either wired or wirelessly, and have your images immediately show up in Capture One for iPad, notes DP Review. In addition to immediately transferring images to your iPad, tethering also supports wireless shutter release and the ability to automatically apply adjustments to images taken while tethered. Read the full Story >>
The New Yorker Wednesday October 5, 2022
“You could hear the wind out the door and through the windows, It seemed like a typical hurricane. Waters were getting wavy and stuff, which was to be expected.” That is how Adam Rayhart, resident of at Riverwalk, a 50-unit apartment complex in Fort Myers, FL, recalled the arrival of Hurricane Ian in a new report at The New Yorker. The article, with photography by Bryan Thomas, describes how the people in the Riverwalk apartments managed a harrowing rescue as Ian bore down on them.
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