Associated Press Thursday February 1, 2024
Hal Buell, who led The Associated Press’ photo operations from the darkroom era into the age of digital photography over a four-decade career, died on Jan. 29, reports AP. He was 92. Buell worked in 33 countries and is particularly noted for guiding coverage of the Vietnam War, working with legendary AP photographers including Eddie Adams, Horst Faas and Nick Ut. Buell made the crucial decision in 1972 to run Ut’s photo of a naked young girl fleeing her burning village after napalm was dropped on it by South Vietnamese Air Force aircraft, notes AP.
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COLOSSAL Thursday February 1, 2024
Chicago-based photographer Dave Jordano gets to work after the sun goes down, notes Colossal. Jordano traverses the streets of cities and towns, mostly across the U.S., seeking illuminated orners and urban idiosyncrasies. “For me, it’s mostly about the quiet solitude, the empty streets, sometimes surreal nature of a city that looks and feels as if it’s frozen in time,” he says. His images capture an alternative, noirish idea of American life: “The pace of everything slows down, and time becomes irrelevant,” he notes.
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PetaPixel Thursday February 1, 2024
The new Yashica Vision night-vision binoculars promise the ability to record full-color 4K video and 58-megapixel photos from up to 600 meters away in total darkness, notes PetaPixel. The binoculars boast a 0.0037 lux sensitivity, which Yashica says gives them the ability to provide sharp and clear focus even with only the faintest amount of light. Even in pitch dark, the company says just the first level (there are three levels) of the built-in IR illuminator allows the binoculars to see clearly from 20 to 50 meters away.
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The New York Times Thursday February 1, 2024
Art and fashion collide once again: To mark its 40th anniversary, the Marc Jacobs fashion line brought together a cast of friends and collaborators for its Spring/Summer 2024 campaign, shot by German photographer Jeurgen Teller. Among the subjects captured, notes Art News, was photographer Cindy Sherman, who donned two of her personas. Meanwhile, The NY Times talked recently with Sherman about being a “woman of a certain age," a recent creative slump, and her new show at Hauser & Wirth’s SoHo gallery in New York City.
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