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Link Love: 3/12/2010
Mar 12, 2010 5:00am
Need some DIY camera inspiration? Check out the cardboard cameras and ethereal photographs of Czech photographer Miroslav Tichý at the International Center of Photography exhibition online or on the ground,...
Brave New Museum
Mar 11, 2010 5:00am
Computer science researchers at the University of Washington and Cornell University have announced a new system of powerful graphics algorithms that will create three-dimensional renderings of buildings, neighborhoods, and potentially even entire cities. Fittingly the inventors went for the gold and named the system PhotoCity. Like its precursor, Microsoft’s Photosynth,...
A Photographer, Not a Terrorist
Mar 11, 2010 5:00am
Starting last fall, stories started popping up in the British media and online about photographers who’d been stopped by officials empowered to question and search them if they seemed suspicious or might have some links to terrorism. Since then, more first person and news reports describe how tourists, journalists, and...
Publicity, Politics, and Physics
Mar 10, 2010 5:00am
Long ago and far away, before gray hairs and creaky knees, before history became my passion, I was an undergraduate physics major. Physics seemed fascinating and beautiful, if difficult. Later, after career paths led into history and science policy, I learned that physics, however elegant, did not reside in a...
Pictures of Pictures
Mar 9, 2010 5:00am
How does photography change the ways we look and learn about art? Walk into any art museum gift shop—filled with postcards, posters, notecards, bookmarks, catalogues, mugs, refrigerator magnets, umbrellas, jig-saw puzzles, and scarves all featuring photographic reproductions of works of art—and you’ll find ample evidence of photography’s central role in...
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