Los Angeles Times Monday June 24, 2024
The city of Los Angeles has agreed to pay the legal bills for a local journalist and a group of activists whom it took to court last year for publishing photographs of LAPD officers, reports the Los Angeles Times. Under the agreement, Documentary photojournalist Ben Camacho and the group Stop LAPD Spying Coalition will receive $300,000 for lawyer fees. Constitutional and media rights experts widely denounced the suit as a meritless and a brazen attack on protected news-gathering activity, adds The Times.
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David Schonauer Monday June 24, 2024
Timothy O'Sullivan is one of photography's most important names, but, surprisingly, not much is known about the man who created "Harvest of Death," the image that has come to epitomize the Battle of
Gettysburg and the carnage of the Civil War. We do know that he was born in 1840 in Ireland. He apprenticed in the studio of famed photographer Matthew Brady. The images … Read the full Story >>
Digital Camera World Friday June 21, 2024
Astronauts on the International Space Station miss their pets back home, so NASA has beamed more than 500 photos and videos of the beloved animals into space. But this wasn’t just a heartwarming gesture for astronauts like Randy Bresnik, Christina Koch, and Kjell Lindgren, notes DIY Photography. The transmissions were a test run for NASA’s Space Communications and Navigation (SCaN) program, showcasing the potential of laser communications technology. The images traveled over links at a rate of 1.2 gigabits per second, adds Digital Camera World.
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The Guardian Friday June 21, 2024
The perfect night-time shot has long proved elusive for makers of both still and moving images, but the allure of the night far exceeds the limitations of technology, notes The Guardian, which spotlights the new book Night Fever: Film and Photography After Dark. The compendium of night photography features work by David Goldbatt, Dayanita Singh, Evgenia Arbugaeva, Katsumi Watanabe, Malick Sidibé, Ming Smith, Trevor Paglen and others, “most of whom,” adds TG, “have homed in on not what the night looks like but the way it feels.”
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