Is That You I Saw at the Bus Stop…in Adelaide?
An issue about who has rights to use a picture of a 15-year-old girl in an advertisement shows that what is on a billboard in Australia might embarrass someone in Texas.
View ArticlePolaroid Fans Try Making New Film for Old Cameras
A group of Polaroid enthusiasts in the Netherlands is aiming to reinvent the instant film pack.
View ArticleTaking On the Gulf Oil Spill With Kites and Cameras
An M.I.T. fellow is putting together camera kits with balloons and kites to document the damage in the gulf.
View ArticleInstagram Quickly Passes 1 Million Users
Instagram, a photo-sharing social network, announced Tuesday that it had passed one million registered users in just two months.
View ArticleInstagram Raises Money
Instagram, the popular mobile photo-sharing Web service currently available on Apple's mobile platform, announced $7 million in funding on Wednesday.
View ArticleTech Talk Podcast: Browser Security
In this week's podcast: an online banking security tool; iPhone photo lenses and cordless AKG headphones.
View ArticleTexters, the Photo Series
Jospeh Holmes, a professional photographer, documented New Yorkers peering into their phones in a photo series called "Texters."
View ArticleOn 9/11, the Seeds of the Infinite Grapevine
A decade of technological change since 9/11 has fundamentally changed the way we experience news events, but the foundation for that change was already visible in 2001.
View ArticleLytro Photos of the New iPad
Photos of the iPad taken with the new Lytro camera are particularly impressive on the closeups of the new retina display screen. See a collection we took at Wednesday's Apple event.
View ArticleDisruptions: Innovation Isn’t Easy, Especially Midstream
Why could a small start-up build Instagram, a photo app, and sell it for $1 billion while companies like Eastman Kodak, steeped in photography and the emotionalism of photography, could not? Culture...
View ArticleLomography, an Analog Company Surviving in a Digital World
Lomography, a company that sells quirky film cameras, has managed to stay afloat by cultivating a niche audience, despite the struggles of other photography companies like Kodak and Polaroid. Although...
View ArticleTwitter to Add Photo Filters to Compete With Instagram
In the coming months, Twitter plans to update its mobile applications to introduce photo filters that could compete with Instagram, according to people who work at the company.
View ArticleThe New Flickr Is Pretty, but Is It Social?
Flickr unveiled its new Web site design, showing off high-resolution rectangular photos and a free terabyte of space for users. But the new Flickr still feels like it's missing something.
View ArticleInstagram Video and the Death of Fantasy
Instagram's new video service does capture the reality of little moments. But is that what we really want?
View ArticleBringing Invisible Stories to Instagram Followers
The Jamaican photographer Radcliffe Roye takes Instagram photos of residents of Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, to tell the stories of “the forgotten man.”
View ArticleDisruptions: Social Media Images Form a New Language Online
The rising popularity of the image in social media has further transformed the way we share our lives with one another. Photos, once slices of a moment in the past — sunsets, cappuccinos, the family...
View ArticleThe Death of Photography Has Been Greatly Exaggerated
For years, photographers have been bracing for the moment when video technology will eclipse photography. But as the short clips shared on social media show us, photos still hold a magic that video...
View ArticleWirelessly Expand Your Smartphone or Tablet Memory
The SanDisk Connect Wireless Media Drive allows user to plug an SD memory card into a tiny hard drive and then wirelessly retrieve photos, videos or files on a tablet or smartphone.
View ArticleA Lesson Learned About the Intensity of Camera Enthusiasts
While the tech community can become passionate about the companies they admire, the photography community can take things to an entirely different level.
View ArticleFacebook Removes Dating Ads Featuring Photo of Dead Girl
The social network apologized for ads placed by a dating service that featured photos of Rehtaeh Parsons, a Canadian girl who committed suicide in April after she had been cyberbullied over an alleged...
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