1. life: Contrary to what some consumers, amateur photographers and even die-hard techies might assume, instant photography has been around a lot longer than the digital camera and the iPhone. In fact, it’s been around for more than six decades, ever since the scientist, visionary and Polaroid co-founder Edwin H. Land introduced his first “Land Camera” way back in 1947. Here, on Edwin Land’s birthday (he was born May 7, 1909, in Bridgeport Conn.), and a full 40 years after the SX-70 was introduced, LIFE.com pays tribute to Land’s vision and his determination to, as he once put it, “provide an opportunity for creativity that other photography doesn’t allow.” Also in the gallery are pictures made with the SX-70 by LIFE photographer Co Rentmeester, who experimented with the camera while shooting the cover story on Land for the October 27, 1972, issue of the magazine.

    life:

    Contrary to what some consumers, amateur photographers and even die-hard techies might assume, instant photography has been around a lot longer than the digital camera and the iPhone. In fact, it’s been around for more than six decades, ever since the scientist, visionary and Polaroid co-founder Edwin H. Land introduced his first “Land Camera” way back in 1947.

    Here, on Edwin Land’s birthday (he was born May 7, 1909, in Bridgeport Conn.), and a full 40 years after the SX-70 was introduced, LIFE.com pays tribute to Land’s vision and his determination to, as he once put it, “provide an opportunity for creativity that other photography doesn’t allow.”

    Also in the gallery are pictures made with the SX-70 by LIFE photographer Co Rentmeester, who experimented with the camera while shooting the cover story on Land for the October 27, 1972, issue of the magazine.

  2. storyboard: The Morgue Lives! It is a cramped basement annex, stacked high with metal filing cabinets, full of three-fourths of a million pounds of old newspaper clippings and photos, going back 160 years. It’s simply called “the morgue.” To get here, a reporter must leave the shiny glass tower that is the 40th Street headquarters of the New York Times, walk a half-block down the street, and descend three levels below the sidewalk. There, in a nondescript tower, she will emerge from a dirty elevator, walk past a janitor’s closet, then past a giant, rusted pump contraption with running water, and finally reach a pair of metal doors. There are glue traps with belly-up cockroaches in the corner. Read More

    storyboard:

    The Morgue Lives!

    It is a cramped basement annex, stacked high with metal filing cabinets, full of three-fourths of a million pounds of old newspaper clippings and photos, going back 160 years.

    It’s simply called “the morgue.”

    To get here, a reporter must leave the shiny glass tower that is the 40th Street headquarters of the New York Times, walk a half-block down the street, and descend three levels below the sidewalk. There, in a nondescript tower, she will emerge from a dirty elevator, walk past a janitor’s closet, then past a giant, rusted pump contraption with running water, and finally reach a pair of metal doors. There are glue traps with belly-up cockroaches in the corner.

    Read More

  3. saracwynar: In Progress. History of Images board.

    saracwynar:

    In Progress. History of Images board.

  4. The photographer has been a slave to the camera for a long time. Good camera, good lens, Leica, etc – these were the masters of the photographers. But in a way, Daido Moriyama is a photographer who started to make the camera his slave. Photography is not about the camera. Of course we need the camera. If you want to write a romantic love letter, we need some tool to write it with. But anything – a pencil or ballpoint pen – is fine.

    — Nobuyoshi Araki /via janado

  5. “The Road to Nowhere” by Roland Shainidze /via 500px

    “The Road to Nowhere” by Roland Shainidze /via 500px

  6. Rare Extreme Wide-Angle Nikkor Lens Goes On Sale  →

    istillshootfilm:


    British Journal of Photography

    A rare fisheye Nikkor 6mm f/2.8 lens, which offers the “world’s most extreme wide-angle” and is worth £100,000, has gone on sale at Gray’s of Westminster in London

    First introduced in 1970 at the Photokina trade show in Cologne, Germany, the Fisheye-Nikkor 6mm f/2.8 lens offers an angle of view of 220º making it, at the time, the “world’s most extreme wide-angle lens to cover an image area of 24x36mm.

  7. Tarana Akbari, 12, screams in fear moments after a suicide bomber detonated a bomb in a crowd at the Abul Fazel Shrine in Kabul on December 06, 2011. Massoud Hossaini / AFP Pulitzer Prize 2012 Breaking News Photography /in The Pulitzer Prizes | Works

    Tarana Akbari, 12, screams in fear moments after a suicide bomber detonated a bomb in a crowd at the Abul Fazel Shrine in Kabul on December 06, 2011.

    Massoud Hossaini / AFP

    Pulitzer Prize 2012 Breaking News Photography /in The Pulitzer Prizes | Works

  8. photojojo: Facebook just bought Instagram for $1billion! You can expect Instagram to stay a separate app from Facebook, but there will probably be more integration between the two. Read more above! via & screengrab from TechCrunch

    photojojo:

    Facebook just bought Instagram for $1billion!

    You can expect Instagram to stay a separate app from Facebook, but there will probably be more integration between the two. Read more above!

    via & screengrab from TechCrunch

  9. SILVER & LIGHT

  10. Photographs Not Taken: what makes a photographer freeze? | Art and design | guardian.co.uk →

    A new book of essays by photographers explores the missed opportunities of images never captured.

  11. L1010088 runawayPig by maique madeira /via 500px

    L1010088 runawayPig by maique madeira /via 500px