DP Review Wednesday December 28, 2022
Is there a market niche in being old fashioned? DP Review reports that Ricoh, the parent company of the Pentax brand, is working on developing a new film camera under the historic Pentax name. Pentax also released a pair of videos that share a behind-the-scenes look at the work that’s already gone into what it calls its Film Camera Project. Ricoh says it wants to consider the voices of photographers who would like to see a new Pentax film camera come to life throughout the development process.
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David Schonauer Wednesday December 28, 2022
Among the anniversaries we celebrated in 2022 was the 50th birthday of the Polaroid SX-70, an instant camera that, as we noted, changed fine-art photography. Polaroid inventor and owner Edwin Land
himself declared the camera--filled with some 20,000 technical breakthroughs--to be a turning point for the medium when he first showed it to some 3,000 people gathered at a Polaroid warehouse in
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ARTnews Tuesday December 27, 2022
Photography curator, writer and painter Efrem Zelony-Mindell has been charged by the U.S. Attorney’s office for the Southern District on New York with attempted enticement of a minor, as well as possession and distribution of child pornography, notes Art News. He could face life in prison, adds Hyperallergic. The FBI alleges that, starting in April of this year, Zelony-Mindell had a series of conversations with two undercover FBI agents on the encrypted messaging platform Telegram. In 2020, Zelony-Mindell’s book newflesh was shortlisted for the Paris Photo Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards.
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ACC ART BOOKS Tuesday December 27, 2022
Stephen Shames was a 20-year-old student at the UC Berkeley when he began photographing the Black Panther Party, the Black Nationalist and Socialist movement founded in 1966 in Oakland, California by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale. Shames was was able to gain the trust of people in the party, and they allowed him into their lives to make photos, notes The Washington Post, which recently spotlighted Shames’s new book Comrade Sisters: Women of the Black Panther Party, a portrait of the women of the Black Panthers.
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