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Next week, NASA will unveil darkest dark room while Ritz Camera stores will demonstrate the smallest 35mm photograph.

Thursday, June 15th, 2006

Jumbo camera taking world’s largest photo

By GILLIAN FLACCUS, Associated Press Writer
Walk into the massive air hangar and the first thing you notice is an oppressive darkness broken only by a tiny beam of light from a gumball-size hole in the wall.
Then, as the eye adjusts, an upside-down image emerges on the opposite wall that is […]

Posted in Science, Photography |

The excitement of last autumn’s USC-Notre Dame game apparently caused the tens of thousands of fans to miss what may be the most incredible occurrence in the fabled history of the South Bend campus.

Tuesday, March 7th, 2006

Had not Henry Stanislaus Trblinkski not been paying attention before landing his Piper Boll Wevil-25 at Sounth Bend airport, he would have not seen these two massive UFOs hovering over the sell-out crowd. He grabbed a camera shot the picture and within an hour of landing was taken into custody
whence he has not been seen.
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Posted in Oddity, Photography, Indiana |

I view the triumph of color photographs in newspapers as another proof that progress is not linear. Black & white wirephotos carried an historical importance which color oft-times diminishes. Obviously, there are exceptions to the rule. On Thursday, a front page photograph in the New York Times reminded me of the works of Eugene Delacroix and George Bellows.

Saturday, February 4th, 2006

In a photograph of an angry group of West Bank demonstrators,
Menahem Katahan (Agence-Press France/Getty Images) combined

Delacroix’s acute vision of animal movement

and his romantic view of history

with George Bellows’ early palette

and concern for the struggle of humankind

to create a truly exquisite artwork which synthesized the aforementioned elements at the speed of a shutter.

Menahem Kahana/Agence France-Presse […]

Posted in Art, Middle East, Photography |

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