The New York Times Thursday January 5, 2023
As an infantryman in World War II, Tony Vaccaro carried an M1 rifle and a 35-millimeter Argus C3 camera that he had bought as a teenager. Vaccaro documented the war throughout the 275 days he spent fighting in Europe. When he died on Dec. 28 at age 100, he was remembered both for his intimate pictures of combat—many unseen for decades after the war’s end—and his later work as a magazine photographer, shooting fashion and celebrities including Georgia O’Keeffe and Greta Garbo, notes The New York Times.
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AnOther Thursday January 5, 2023
The book Paris Opera, from Stanley/Barker, feature 50 images by Australian photographer Bill Henson that were originally commissioned by the Paris Opera in the 1990s. They feature patrons dressed in formal attire—“their faces lit cinematic tension, smart white shirts act as armor for the photographer’s male protagonists, while women’s collarbones glisten with jewels, their lips painted varying shades of berry,” notes AnOther. The images represent a delicate dance between light and dark present in much of Henson’s oeuvre.
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PetaPixel Thursday January 5, 2023
The camera market is a bastion of high tech as manufacturers constantly innovate to create market-leading products. Right? A look at many products released in recent years actually suggests declining investment in research and development, notes PetaPixel, which explores manufacturing trends to see how camera makers are shaping the market. Trend number 1: Retro is cool.
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Blind Thursday January 5, 2023
The new book Apollo Remastered, from aviation historian Andy Saunders, is a one-of-a-kind photographic odyssey that retraces eleven Apollo missions, from 1961 to 1972, through 300 digitized, reprocessed, and restored images, notes Blind. The images in the book represent selection from among the 35,000 negatives carefully preserved at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. Saunders’s collection offers a look at a great human achievement and the evolution of space photography over the past 60 years.
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