PetaPixel Friday May 9, 2025
Things are looking up for a young company called GENIC, whose photo booths take portraits from above rather than the traditional eye-level shot: Launched a year ago, GENIC now has three photo booth locations in Los Angeles that have become a hit with Gen Zers in the city, notes PetaPixel. Ryan Kim and M.J. Kim founded the company while students at UCLA, after noticing a gap in the market in the U.S., where photo booths were “mostly unbranded rentals” that were “functional and forgettable,” adds PP.
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Chicago Sun-Times Friday May 9, 2025
Herbert Migdoll, the longtime photographer of the Joffrey Ballet, died on April 19 at age 90, reports the Chicago Sun-Times. Migdoll met Robert Joffrey, one of the company’s founders, during a chance encounter in the 1960s at a pharmacy in New York City, joined the company in 1968 and later moved with it to Los Angeles, where it was based for a decade, before the Joffrey landed in Chicago in 1995. Migsdoll’s iconic images of dancers appeared on the covers of The New York Times, Life, Time and Dance magazine.
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BBC Friday May 9, 2025
On Thursday, December 7, 1972, humanity got its first look at our planet as a whole, courtesy of the crew of Apollo 17 – commander Eugene Cernan, command module pilot Ronald Evans and lunar module pilot Harrison "Jack" Schmitt — who captured an image of Earth that came to be known as the “Blue Marble” (using a Hasselblad 500 EL loaded with 70mm Kodak film.) Earthlings were captivated by the beautiful sight. But today, notes the BBC, decades of climate change have altered the appearance of our home.
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DP Review Friday May 9, 2025
Sigma America, maker of lenses and accessories for a wide range of camera systems, including Sony, Fujifilm, Canon, Nikon and its own cameras, is the latest photo manufacturer to announce US price hikes due to President Donald Trump’s tariffs, notes DP Review. Price increases on its products will take effect on Monday, June 2, so if you’ve been eyeing a Sigma lens or new Sigma BF camera, you may want to buy soon, adds PetaPixel. All orders placed “and fulfilled” by May 31 will be subject to current pricing.
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