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100 Meter Wide Photograph

100 Meter Wide Photograph.
To create We’re All Gonna Die – 100 meters of existence, photographer Simon Hoegsberg stood on a railroad platform in Berlin for 20 days, photographing 178 strangers. The final result is a 30 inch by 100 meter wide print. Only some of the people were actually aware they were being photographed.

New York Times launches LENS Photojournalism Blog

The New York Times introduces Lens, a photojournalism blog that intends to present some of the most interesting visual and multimedia reporting: in photographs, videos, audio slide shows and any other medium that fits — our format.

Lens will be a showcase for the work of Times photographers, but it will also highlight the best images from other newspapers, magazines, news organizations and picture agencies, and from around the Web. It will point readers in the direction of important books, galleries and museum exhibitions. And it will draw on The Times’s own pictorial archive, numbering in the millions of images and going back to the early 20th century. Link.

Infinite Photograph - It Will Blow You Away

National Geographic Digital Media (NGDM) has launched Infinite Photograph, a cutting-edge Web 2.0 photography mosaic application that will allow users to interact with shared online photographs by clicking on color patterns to create an infinite array of stunning mosaics in a variety of themes.

The first Infinite Photograph theme debuted April 15 at www.ngm.com/infinite, featuring mosaics created from user-submitted photos of the natural world as part of National Geographic's My Shot "As Seen on Earth" hub.

An Infinite Photograph digital mosaic is composed of 200 to 500 photographs culled from National Geographic's user-generated My Shot photography database. Link

Stephen Shore - American Beauty

LIFE.com launches today

LIFE and Getty Images have joined forces to provide you instant access to millions of breathtaking photographs — for free. LIFE.com not only lets you wander through the legendary LIFE and Getty archives, but with more than 3,000 new photos added every day, it also gives you the best pictures of the people and places shaping the world today.

These are the photos you won’t forget. Taken by the world’s top photographers and curated by LIFE editors, they tell the story of our times — our heroes, our stars, our celebrations and heartbreak, the events etched in our memory and the small moments that make life sweet. When you find a photo you like, you'll be able to share it, print it, and sometimes even buy it. www.life.com

The Commons on Flickr

The goal of The Commons on Flickr is to first, show hidden treasures in the world's public photography archives, and second, to show how your input and knowledge can help make these collections even richer.

The Commons project brings images spanning the entire history of photography, carefully preserved and served up digitally by the world’s leading libraries, archives and museums.

You're invited to help describe the photographs you discover in The Commons, either by adding tags or leaving comments.

The Library of Congress, George Eastman House, Powerhouse Museum and The Smithsonian are a few of the collections online. Link.

Girl from iconic Great Depression photo

Modesto, California; The photograph became an icon of the Great Depression: a migrant mother with her children burying their faces in her shoulder. Katherine McIntosh was 4 years old when the photo was snapped. She said it brought shame -- and determination -- to her family.
"I wanted to make sure I never lived like that again," says McIntosh, who turns 77 on Saturday. "We all worked hard and we all had good jobs and we all stayed with it. When we got a home, we stayed with it." Read more here......

Ansel Adams - Archival Replicas

The Ansel Adams Gallery has introduced the Ansel Adams Archival Replica. Archival Up till now, if you wanted an Ansel Adams print, you had three choices: original prints, modern prints limited to 8x10 inches in size, and offset posters. Now there's a fourth alternative: 12-ink archival inkjets in sizes up to 30x38".

Only seven images are being offered initially, with more to follow. They sell for $129 to $849 (mounted and matted). "Technology has advanced to the point that we're now able to make reproductions of my grandfather's originals to extraordinarily exacting standards," says Matthew Adams. "We believe these are the best large-format reproductions of Ansel's work yet made." Available exclusively from The Ansel Adams Gallery. Link

The Oxford Project

In 1984, photographer Peter Feldstein set out to photograph every single resident of his town, Oxford, Iowa (pop. 676). He converted an abandoned storefront on Main Street into a makeshift studio and posted fliers inviting people to stop by. At first they trickled in slowly, but in the end, nearly all of Oxford stood before Feldstein’s lens. Oxford Project link.
The CBS "Sunday Morning" video segment about Peter Feldstein's Oxford Project. Link to video.

LIFE Magazine photo archive

Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google. Link.