Welcome to the culture wars of 2025: This week we noted that photographs by Sally Mann on view in a group exhibition at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth in Texas were targeted by locals and elected officials for containing what they deemed to be inappropriate depictions of children. Mann, a highly esteemed fine-art photographer whose family portraits include images of her children … Read the full Story >>
Night-sky photographers and other star gazers have a lot to look forward to in 2025, notes LiveScience: In February, Venus all reach its closest point to Earth, shining at -4.5 magnitude — as bright as it ever gets. There’s a total lunar eclipse in March, as well as a partial solar eclipse, and in September, Saturn will be at its brightest and best. Digital Camera World has more on astrophotography in 2025. Read the full Story >>
“Most movie stars act the part of themselves, more or less convincingly; Marilyn created a wholly other version of herself, meant not to convince but to seduce. She was both Frankenstein and Frankenstein’s monster, and it is our subliminal awareness of this duality that makes her such a fascinating and compelling creature.” So notes The Guardian, which spotlights Marilyn Monroe by Eve Arnold, a sumptuous reissue of images of Monroe made by the Magnum photographer that capture the intriguing woman behind the movie star. Read the full Story >>
Actor Jeff Bridges is also a talented photographer known for his love of the panoramic Widelux camera, and now he is bringing it back from near oblivion: The panning camera, originally manufactured by the Japanese company Panon Camera Shoko in 1958, is now quite rare, notes PetaPixel. Kosmo Foto reports that Bridges and his wife Susan Geston and Marwan El Mozayen and Charys Schuler of the magazine Silvergrain Classics are bringing out a new version of the camera, this time called the Wideluxx. Bridges spotlighted the new camera at Instagram. Read the full Story >>
