The New York Times Wednesday March 13, 2024
Photographer Elliott Erwiit, who died last year, moved into the Brentmore co-op on NYC’s Central Park West in the late 1960s. At the time, his apartment cost $75,000. “It was a big stretch to make that purchase,” his daughter Jennifer recently told The New York Times. “He was successful, but I don’t think he was really wealthy.” By the early 1980s, as his wealth grew, along with his vast collection of copyrighted images, he also created a ground-floor photo studio in the building, converted from a dentist’s office. Now the apartment is listed for $11.5 million, and the studio is listed for $13.8 million.
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CNN Wednesday March 13, 2024
The dominant perception of early photography from West Africa is that it was taken through a colonizing lens—by Europeans in the mid-19th century spreading through the the region with a new technology in hand. But a new book by Giulia Paoletti, an assistant professor in the Department of Art at the University of Virginia, re-examines that history. The book, Portrait and Place: Photography in Senegal, 1840-1960, unearths unpublished gems, giving authorship to images long labelled anonymous, and dispelling many myths, notes CNN.
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engadget Wednesday March 13, 2024
Designed for pros, Leica’s new SL3 mirrorless camera looks nothing like the company’s famous rangefinders, notes Engadget. It offers a 60-megapixel sensor—the same sensor as the M11 rangefinder and Q3 compact models—and new phase-detect autofocus system that, as PetaPixel explains, combines with Leica’s depth mapping and contrast recognition to produce a far superior autofocus system than Leica has previously featured in its SL series." The SL3 also shoots 8K video and is IP54-rated so you can shoot in weather conditions ranging from 14 to 104°F without worrying about dust, moisture.
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Barron’s Wednesday March 13, 2024
The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., has enriched its collection with 141 photographs by 20 Chinese contemporary artists gifted by collector and publisher Larry Warsh. The images, created from 1993 to 2006, formed the bulk of “A Window Suddenly Opens: Contemporary Photography in China,” an exhibition of 186 works that was on view at the museum last fall, notes Barron’s. The gift includes works by the artists Cui Xiuwen, Rong Rong and Zhang Peili, among others.
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