Digital Camera World Wednesday September 17, 2025
Mirrorless camera sales are booming in 2025, but DSLRs are still shipping in the millions, notes Digital Camera World, citing Nikkei Industry Map figures. Canon has not launched a new DSLR model since 2020, but it shipped 790,000 DSLR units in 2024—down slightly from 2023 but still impressive. Canon’s DSLR sales represent nearly 90% of the entire DSLR market worldwide. Indeed, adds PetaPixel, Canon sold more DSLRs in 2024 than most camera companies sold digital cameras in total, including Fujifilm (740,000), Panasonic (280,000), OM Digital (160,000), and Ricoh Imaging (70,000).
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Rolling Stone Wednesday September 17, 2025
Abbey Road Studios has revealed the nominees for its 2025 Music Photography Awards, including images of Chappell Roan, Lana Del Rey, Charli XCX, Tyler the Creator, Pulp and more. The nominees were selected from more than 20,000 images submitted from 30 different countries, notes Rolling Stone, which lists finalists. As we noted previously, photographer and filmmaker Anton Corbijn is being honored this year with the contest’s Icon Award on Oct. 2 at the Abbey Road Studio in London.
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ARTnews Wednesday September 17, 2025
Following a threatened crackdown on what he his administration called “corrosive ideology” in American museums, Donald Trump has ordered a national park to remove a famous photograph of a formerly enslaved man baring his scarred back, notes Art News. The Washington Post, which first reported on Trump’s order, did not specify which park would be impacted by the removal of the photograph. But the article said it was one of “multiple” parks impacted by the orders. Taken in 1863, the photograph in ordered removed shows a man who may have been named Peter who escaped a plantation in Louisiana and was subsequently examined by doctors.
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David Schonauer Wednesday September 17, 2025
For years, Tina Modotti's reputation as an artist was obscured by the notoriety of her love affairs with the American modernist photographer Edward Weston and the Cuban Marxist revolutionary Julio
Antonio Mella. But recent exhibitions have sought to rebalance the narrative of her life and work, highlighting her politically engaging photography and striking portraits of everyday objects, notes
The New York Times, which recently … Read the full Story >>
