Olympus Shareholders Approve All-New Board
Photo: Olympus An angry, tense, and sometimes contentious shareholders' meeting, convened in the common room of a Tokyo hotel Friday (yesterday in Japan), began with Olympus officials and board members bowing deeply to the shareholders in the traditional Japanese gesture...
Memories of Dick Zakia
By Barry Myers I first met Dick when I was a student at RIT in 1970. I enrolled at RIT in 1969 but dropped out then weeks later. After two quarters of being a non-degree student, I decided that I...
Canon 5D Mark III is Great for Low Light, Not So Great for DR
DxOMark has just published its results for the new Canon EOS 5D Mark III. It obtained Canon's best-ever DxOMark Overall Score for full-frame digital cameras. With a DxOMark Score of 81 points, it's in 10th place overall (for all cameras)...
Random Excellence: Eddy Pula the Famous
Eddy Pula, Drunk Girls For most of the past five years Eddy Pula has dressed up as one famous photographer or another to cover the Boston Marathon. This year—for the hottest of all 116—he went as Bruce Gilden. That's him...
Your Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Are you a fiction reader? As you've no doubt heard, the Pulitzer Prize for fiction wasn't awarded this year, because apparently either the three nominees all sucked, or the jurors emerged from their deliberations with giant "L"s imprinted in red...
End Game
By Ctein Mike and I have been discussing plans for one last dye transfer sale on TOP next year (we're not ready yet to divulge the details), which required me to go through my supply of dye transfer paper and...
Richard Zakia
Dick Zakia in the summer of 2011. Photo by Willie Osterman. I was just reached with the news that Richard Zakia has died, last March 12th. Richard (born Rashid Elisha) Zakia was one of the great photography teachers of his...
Harold Feinstein Book Will Be a Reality
You might remember that back in October 2011 we called attention to a Kickstarter campaign to help Harold Feinstein publish his first monograph of his decades of work. Well, the Kickstarter campaign was a success, and Panopticon Gallery in Boston...
All the Photographs from the 19th Century
In this still-interesting 1000memories post, the astonishing assertion is made that today, humanity takes as many photographs every two minutes as were made in the entire 19th century. Even if the datum is off by half or double (1 minutes,...
Open Mike: The Sinking of the S. S. Titanic
I am not very interested in fiction or its liberties. I would rather get as near to truth as I can. In fictional accounts of the sinking of the Titanic, which happened 100 years ago today, liberties are often taken:...
Doisneau is 100
Google is celebrating the centennial of the great French photographer Robert Doisneau's birth today—have a look at its home page. Doisneau died on April Fool's day 1994. It's funny, but I've never owned a good book of Doisneau photographs. Of...
Shorpy and Addie
Well, damn, I deserve what I get for mentioning taxes in a lead-in. Let's pretend I didn't do that, okay? It makes me feel kind of useless to spend my time not publishing comments. More on topic, Jim Nash mentioned...
