Magnum Photos Wednesday April 5, 2023
If you enjoy seeing how photographers created images that have come to be iconic, you’ll like the Magnum Darkroom Collection, which provides a look at the darkroom work done to photos in the 75-year-old Magnum Archive. The 11x14-inch prints in the collection “reveal the thought process behind how these images were interpreted, how the subject is brought to life and how depth and layers were accentuated through the printing process,” notes Magnum. Works by Dennis Stock, Leonard Freed, Burt Glinn and others are available.
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Smithsonian Wednesday April 5, 2023
The world's largest museum has made more images from its collection available to the public, raising the number of its assets in the public domain to 4.5 million, notes My Modern Met. Available at Smithsonian Open Access platform, the images can be downloaded, reused, and remixed under the Creative Commons Zero license. The new additions to the initial 2.8 million assets mark a continuing release of information that opens up a wide range of possibilities for creators.
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Insight Editions Wednesday April 5, 2023
Originally a term used by trophy hunters in Africa, the “Big Five” described the animals most challenging to shoot and kill: the lion, elephant, leopard, rhino, and buffalo. However, British photographer Graeme Green has reclaimed the narrative, creating a global “New Big Five” for wildlife photography, notes CNN. In 2021, 50,000 people around the world voted for the five animals they would most like to photograph, or see photographed. Now there is a book, The New Big 5, featuring work by Ami Vitale, Paul Nicklen and many others.
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GIZMODO Wednesday April 5, 2023
Sony has announced an addition to its ever-growing line of cameras targeted at video content creators, specifically vloggers, with the ZV-E1—its first to feature a 35mm full-frame sensor. “If the $800 Sony ZV-1 and the $500 Sony ZV-1F were targeted at hobbyist vloggers, the new $2,200 ZV-E1 is going after those who’ve been in the game for a while,” notes Gizmodo. “It’s looking to be a compelling mid-range alternative to Sony’s higher-end Alpha cameras, including the Sony A7S III, from which the new ZV-E1 takes its 12MP sensor.”
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