The Guardian Monday December 8, 2025
Martin Parr, the British documentary photographer who captured the peculiarities of the nation with clarity and hilarity, died on Dec. 6 at age 73, notes The Guardian. He had been diagnosed with cancer in May 2021. Known for his acute observations of the English class system, Parr’s images covered sunbathers and Conservative clubs, village fetes and coffee mornings, often in vivid color and with more than a dash of humor, adds TG. The Magnum photographer rose to prominence in the mid 1980s with his book The Last Resort, a study of working class people on holiday in New Brighton in Merseyside, notes the BBC. Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Monday December 8, 2025
Getty Images boss Craig Peters says the company would rethink the extent of its operations in the UK if the country's competition watchdog blocked its attempted takeover of US rival Shutterstock.
Last month, the UK's Competition and Markets Authority referred the deal, which was announced in January, to an in-depth review, warning it could significantly reduce competition. Peters recently told
the Financial Times that … Read the full Story >>
San Francisco Chronicle Friday December 5, 2025
Last year, San Francisco named a block of Sutter Street “Joe Rosenthal Way,” after the photographer who captured the iconic image of the US flag being raised over Iwo Jima in World War II. Now, reports the San Francisco Chronicle, a block in the city’s Castro district is being named after the legendary rock photographer Jim Marshall, who died in 2010. The block in question is near the apartment that Marshall lived in for many years. Marshall’s longtime assistant Amelia Davis spurred the drive to name the street, notes the Chronicle.
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artbook Friday December 5, 2025
For more than seven decades, photographer Lee Friedlander has documented how Christmas looks in America—from main street store window displays and plastic nativities on snow-covered lawns to inflatable snow globes and questionable St. Nicholas–themed lingerie. The work is collected in the new book Lee Friedlander: Christmas. Friedlander's images reflect his own version of the holiday, notes Artbook: Is Christmas in America a religious celebration? A commercial precept? A misunderstanding? An indulgent blasphemy? Or all of the above?
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