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By way of the Vintage Works/iPhotoCentral newsletter, which wrote up the book The Origins of American Photography 1839-1885, by Kieth F. Davis, there is an accompanying exhibition at the Nelson-Atkins Museum in Kansas City which looks worth visiting to soak up the historical perspective that a great collection of early photography, like this, can provide. […]

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If you can wade through the series of transit strikes that have plagued Paris in recent weeks, head to the Musée d’Orsay, the spectacular museum built inside an old rail station. The museum currently has a photography exhibition of prints from its collection, featuring 19th and 20th century reportage from such seminal photographers as Strand, […]

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The Boston Globe posted a challenge to its computer savvy audience to create Photoshop imagery of the World Series winners, the Boston Red Sox. The results are pretty funny (at least if you are from New England); see the 135, and counting, different submissions here. There’s a link as well for Photoshop images inspired by […]

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“What is it?” That’s what I probably said to my client that gave me this contraption several years ago. I was photographing some products that needed a table-top treatment but wouldn’t stand up by themselves because of their shape, and the way they were weighted. The client had someone at the company cobble together a […]

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Yesterday was my only appearance at PhotoPlus, but my book, Adobe Photoshop & the Art of Photography, is still available at the Course Technology booth/bookstore on the show floor (Booth 1823). Some of the artists that contributed end-of-chapter interviews in the book are making appearances and presentations at the show as well, including John Paul […]

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