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I Can't Put My Phone Down. We are a generation obsessed with technology.

I Can't Put My Phone Down

The ability to constantly document the world using one's mobile device has become the norm, no matter what the circumstances. REVIEW: Luigi Ghirri – “Kodachrome” (2013) Egmond am Zee, 1973 By Allie Haeusslein, Associate Director at Pier 24 Photography, June 2013 The emergence of color photography has typically been narrated through the pictures of iconic American photographers like William Eggleston, Stephen Shore and Joel Meyerowitz.

REVIEW: Luigi Ghirri – “Kodachrome” (2013)

The scope of this dialogue has only recently been expanded to include photographers working elsewhere during the 1970s and early 1980s. Italian photographer Luigi Ghirri is a favored addition to this revised history. Despite exposure in Europe during his lifetime, Ghirri remained relatively unknown outside of Italy. Five ways the digital camera changed us. Photography firm Kodak has run into hard times, with critics suggesting it has failed to effectively adapt to digital.

Five ways the digital camera changed us

But four decades ago Kodak was credited with building the first digital camera, an innovation that has changed the world. The first was a box the size of a small coffee machine with a cassette stuck to the side. Little did anyone know when it took its first image in 1975 that this Heath Robinson-esque prototype would nearly obliterate the market for camera film and turn us all into potential Robert Doisneaus or Henri Cartier-Bressons, recording everything from the banal to the beautiful on our mobile phones. Steven Sasson invented that boxy first digital camera for Kodak. 'What makes a picture last?' - Eamonn McCabe on photography in the digital age. Keeping Photography Relevant in the Digital Age. We live in an age when photography is more accessible than it has ever been.

Keeping Photography Relevant in the Digital Age

Richard Prince: Pervert, Troll, Genius. © Richard Prince.

Richard Prince: Pervert, Troll, Genius

Courtesy Gagosian Gallery. Photography by Robert McKeever. What does the internet do? The internet hates. Obviously, it does lots of other things, too — it jump-starts insurrections, appropriates, lusts, scrambles, loves cats, disrupts. Your Instagrams Are Richard Prince Artworks  Richard Prince, Untitled (portrait), 2014.

Your Instagrams Are Richard Prince Artworks 

Ink jet on canvas. 65 3/4 x 48 3/4 inches (167 x 123.8 cm). © Richard Prince. Courtesy Gagosian Gallery. Photography by Robert McKeever. American artist Richard Prince's current show at Gagosian Gallery in New York, "New Portraits," features 37 images taken from other peoples' Instagram accounts, which have been enlarged to roughly 4 x 6 feet and printed on canvas. Installation view of Richard Prince: New Portraits, September 19-October 25, 2014. Richard Prince’s Instagrams. A show at Gagosian of thirty-eight Instagrams harvested from the Internet and inkjet-printed on canvas by the cynosure of appropriation, Richard Prince, feels fated.

Richard Prince’s Instagrams

The logic of artifying non-art images that Andy Warhol inaugurated half a century ago could hardly skip a burgeoning mass medium of individual self-exposure. Had Prince uncharacteristically dozed, some other artist was going to notice that Instagram recasts Andy’s proverbial fifteen minutes by urging everybody to be famous fifteen times a day. The subjects include the generally known (Kate Moss), the semi-known (the art dealer Tony Shafrazi), and unknown (until now) folks advertising themselves in racy selfies or in a type of portrait that might be termed “the assisted selfie.” Opinion: Photographic Film Is Here To Stay. The Associated Press and Photo Marketing Association recently released some interesting sales figures for film in the US.

Opinion: Photographic Film Is Here To Stay

Impossible. Analog Instant Film and Cameras. Global camera sales decline. Without the statistical data, you should be able to discover that people use digital camera are becoming less and less, while more and more people use smart phones with built-in high resolution camera.

global camera sales decline

Although the image quality of smart phone has a gap, compared to digital camera, beautify editing, instant sharing, Internet access, making calls, sending messages as well as other functions enables it to enjoy a lot of advantages than a single digital camera. That is why the smart phone will replace digital camera as a popular photograph tool. In fact, we can also make prediction from the phone makers. Nokia released a Nokia 808 PureView in 2012 whose camera’s resolution refreshed the parameters standard of mobile phone lens. Moreover, in September of last year, Sony launched QX100/QX10 external lens specially designed for mobile devices which can expand the phone’s camera performance. Early in 2013, the number of global mobile subscribers exceeded global population.

Camera. Digital Camera Sales Trends - Photokina 2014. A declining trend that's slowly stabilizing By jgmurphy88 in Photokina 2014 on Sep 22, 2014 With Photokina wrapping up, many of you are probably considering one of the great new options announced during the event.

Digital Camera Sales Trends - Photokina 2014

Before making your choice, take a look at some of the data we've compiled on the camera market. The camera market is changing, and has been for the past few years. Sales of digital cameras have shrunk globally over the past few years, with shipping numbers peaking at 11 million in March of 2012. The Point-and-Shoot Camera Faces Its Existential Moment - WSJ. Pixel Sep 14 Infographic.pdf. Compact system cameras, the growing category in 2014? Decisive moment? Smartphones steal focus from point-and-shoot cameras.