The Impossible has happened: Slava Smolokowski, the Polish businessman and inventor who is the majority shareholder of The Impossible Project, has just bought Polaroid’s brand and intellectual property. Polaroid ceased making instant cameras and film in 2008; later that year, a group of former employees led by Smolokowski bought the last Polaroid factory and resumed […]
The landscape for high-end photographers changed dramatically this week, with several key new product introductions. Sony, the newly-crowned number two digital camera manufacturer (sorry, Nikon), got in the pro-camera game with the innovative Sony a9, while Fujifilm continued to fill in the ecosystem for its medium-format GFX-50 camera with two new lenses that should appeal […]
Ever since John Maloof discovered a cache of photo world-changing photos by a nanny named Vivian Meier, who spent her entire life photographing the world while maintaining a strange obscurity, photography fans have wondered: Are there others? The answer has come from Barcelona: Yes, and her name is Milagros Caturla. Caturla was an enigmatic photographer […]
Here are nine fantastic photos in black and white, and the people who posted them, that rose above the noise on social networks this week. Check them out and be sure to add your likes, hearts and follows! @fairplagiarism (Twitter) photograph magazine @photographmag (Twitter) Magic Black pictures @Blacwhitfoto (Twitter) Franck BERTRAND @bertrafr (Twitter) Miguel Calabria @MiguelCalabria […]
It went down to the wire, but the Kickstarter campaign to fund the final steps in the production of Sasha Waters Freyer’s feature documentary film about Garry Winogrand, All Things Are Photographable met its fundraising goal of $50,000 to cover production costs. With less than a day left the campaign had raised around $41,000, $9,000 short of its all-or-nothing goal. The […]
Under the category of “what took them so long”, Korean electronics giant Samsung has apparently stopped making digital cameras. Over the last year or so, Samsung cameras have all but disappeared from US retailer web sites. “We no longer produce and sell digital cameras,” a Samsung official was quoted as saying by the Korea Herald. […]