Long before TikTok, long before Instagram, long before the iPhone and sexting, cameras came packaged as cameras. (Most cameras were, in fact, still film cameras.) But in 1999 the Kyocera Visual Phone VP0-210 offered a glimpse into what would be photography's future. It had a 110,000-pixel front-facing camera and stored 20 jpgs that could be sent to friends and family via email. A year … Read the full Story >>
Jule Campbell, the editor behind the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue—the famed annual paean to cheesecake, or its celebration of female beauty and athleticism, depending on your point of view—died on Nov. 19 in Flemington, N.J., reports The New York Times. She was 96. Campbell’s creation broke publishing sales records and helped usher in the era of the supermodel, notes The Times. In 1964, the magazine’s legendary managing editor Andre Laguerre assigned Campbell the task of creating a “sunshine issue” to fill the gloomy void following the NFL season. The rest was photographic history. Read the full Story >>
Do fashion photography and street photography belong together in the same museum exhibition? The Norton Museum of Art of West Palm Beach makes a good case for the mashup with “A Personal View on High Fashion & Street Style: Photographs from the Nicola Erni Collection, 1930s to Now.” The New York Times calls it “a sprawling, adventurous exhibition” that features some of the biggest names in photography, including Richard Avedon, Irving Penn, Bruce Weber and Peter Lindbergh. Read the full Story >>
Ricoh is set to evaluate its many business segments and determine which it will withdraw from or attempt to sell as it aims to increase its return on investment in the 2023 fiscal year, notes PetaPixel. Ricoh currently operates about 30 businesses, one of which is the imaging division that produces both Ricoh and Pentax-branded cameras and lenses. Pentax cameras, while expensive, have proven to be solid and reliable. Despite this, the brand has been reduced to a relatively bit player in both Japanese and North American markets, adds PP. Read the full Story >>
