Introducing a new feature here at the photography blog (drum roll please…) – Photography in the News. Each week, I will bring you up to date on some of the goings on in the world of photography, including digital photography and other related news. These are just brief descriptions, for the full story please click on the links.
(Read in your best Tom Brokaw voice) Jim Taliana, a painter and photographer from Michigan, who moved to Maine five years ago, began the Maine Photography Show because there wasn’t such a thing as a statewide juried exhibition for photography. Now, there is…( full story).
27 year old Jeanne Mounier, of Centerville, Ohio, won $100 and had her photo of a spicebush swallowtail caterpillar published in Parade magazine recently. If you saw the picture, let us know what you thought of it. More…
A 1969 portrait of artist Andy Warhol by Richard Avedon sold for $102,000, while Andreas Gursky’s 1954 photograph “Avenue of the Americas” fetched more than its estimate at $374,400, at a Christie’s auction of the art-photography collection of bankrupt commodities broker Refco. source
Just in case you were worried that traditional black and white photography has gone by the wayside due to the onslaught of digital, rest assured it has not. While some companies no longer make the paper to print your black and white photos, b/w photography is alive and well in Maine. Public Places, Private Spaces, a photography show of four alumni of USM, consists of traditional basic photography. Read more
This just in… Photographer David Plowden is still developing and printing his own photos, using an enlarger and chemicals, just like in the old days. And I thought I was primitive by shooting slide film and scanning it into my computer. The rest of the story.
For those of you who have gone digital, and have some spare time, here are some fun ideas of things you can do with your photos.
And finally, a unique photography exhibit in Columbia, South Carolina. Apparently, some schools there are not in great shape, and the students put together a show to document this fact.