DP Review Monday September 18, 2023
The best instant camera doesn't come cheap, notes DP Review in an assessment of the new $600 Polaroid 1-2. The new high-end camera features full manual controls, LiDAR autofocus and a sharp 98mm f/8 lens. “For a long time, it was our dream to make a high-end Polaroid camera and give people more choice in the world of analog photography — a choice that many passionate photographers told us they were craving,” Polaroid’s CEO Oskar Smolokowski notes at PetaPixel. “To develop the I-2, we expanded our engineering team and spent more than four years designing and finessing every element.”
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Astronomy Photographer of the Year Monday September 18, 2023
The winning images of the 2023 Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition have been revealed by the Royal Observatory Greenwich, with the top prize going to three photographers for an image of the Andromeda galaxy. The image by Marcel Drechsler, Xavier Strottner and Yann Sainty shows a huge plasma arc next to the galaxy. An international collaboration of scientists in now investigating the newly discovered object. This year’s competition drew over 4,000 entries from 64 countries. See also: the BBC.
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ARTnews Monday September 18, 2023
A New York court has dismissed one claim against the Gagosian gallery in a legal drama surrounding a Richard Prince photograph, reports Art News. The suit was first filed in 2015 by the photographer Donald Graham, who claimed that Prince had infringed on his copyright by using his photographs in works presented at Gagosian the year before. Judge Sidney H. Stein determined there was not enough evidence to show that potential gallery profits from a sale of the image were “connected to the alleged infringement and [were] overly speculative.” Whether Prince infringed on Graham’s copyright is still undecided.
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David Schonauer Monday September 18, 2023
The photographer Robert Mapplethorpe is best known for his focus on masculine beauty. When it came for shooting female subjects, he once told the critic Arthur C Danto, "the creative impulse is not
there." There was one notable exception to this: California bodybuilder Lisa Lyon. Mapplethorpe began photographing Lyon in 1980 and went on to produce more than 100 images of her, many of … Read the full Story >>
