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David Schonauer Tuesday July 22, 2025
Last month, Aperture and the British Journal of Photography brought together photographers Diana Markosian and Abdulhamid Kircher to talk about their respective books, Markosian's "Father" (Aperture)
and Kircher's "Rotting From Within" (Loose Joints), which, as BJP noted, "both offer an alternative, brutally honest look at fatherhood." Born in Berlin, Kircher moved to the US as a child, leaving
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The Guardian Monday July 21, 2025
Andy Byron, the married CEO of data infrastructure company Astronomer, has learned that cameras can find you anywhere: The Guardian reports that Byron has resigned after he was caught canoodling with Kristin Cabot, the company’s HR head, by a “Kiss Cam” while attending a Coldplay concert. “When Ms. Cabot noticed her face on the screen, she immediately jumped out of Mr. Byron’s arms, covered her face and turned around. He ducked out of view,” added The New York Times. A video of the moment went ecstatically viral.
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Cincinnati Magazine Monday July 21, 2025
Ten years after Louis Daguerre revealed his photographic process, a young man named James Presley Ball brought a daguerreotype camera to Cincinnati. Ball, a free man of color who had learned the inventor’s process in Virginia, would eventually open at least 10 studios in downtown Cincinnati, employing a whole team of Black artists. Interest in Ball’s work spiked with Deborah Willis’’s 1993 book J.P. Ball, Daguerrean and Studio Photographer, and, notes Cincinnati magazine, his mystique has only grown.
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engadget Monday July 21, 2025
Nearly a decade after it introduced the RX1R II, Sony has unveiled the RX1R III, a fixed-lens 35mm full-frame compact camera with a 61MP Exmor R sensor and Sony's latest image processing technology, promising low noise and high dynamic range. The RX1R III is smaller and more streamlined than its predecessor and at 17 ounces is considerably lighter than its main competition, Leica's Q3 and the Fujifilm GFX100RF, notes Engadget. That small size is due in part to the camera’s Zeiss Sonnar T 35mm f/2 lens.
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