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Starting last October, Vox began their Vox Darkroom video series, which shares "stories of the past, one photograph at a time." Since launching the series in the fall, Vox has published five episodes, all of which can be viewed below.
The latest episode is about Hippolyte Bayard, the first photographer to ever hold a...
Shutter Release is our regular roundup feature here at Imaging Resource. We aim to bring you the best in original content. With that said, there is a lot of great photography content from around the web worth sharing with you. That content might be a new product release, an interesting editorial or helpful educational...
The Met Museum in New York City recently digitized its collection, releasing nearly 400,000 images for free under a Creative Commons Zero (CC0) license. A CC0 license means that all of the images are available for unrestricted use.
You can search through the collection of digitized work here and utilize several filters...
Whether you are a Star Wars fan or not, you are almost certainly familiar with the lightsaber. The iconic weapon from the Star Wars universe has found itself enshrined in popular culture for decades. Did you know that the basis for some of the lightsabers in the original Star Wars trilogy were repurposed camera flashes?...
A few years ago, BBC Future wrote a feature about Harold Eugene Edgerton, a longtime electrical engineering professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and pioneer of flash photography. A post on Reddit about Edgerton recently appeared, so it feels like a great time to take a look back at his work and the lasting...
We frequently cover excellent or distinct timelapse videos on Imaging Resource, but DigitalRev In-Focus has a neat new video discussing timelapses in general, including their history, the techniques behind the videos and their artistic aspects.
Firstly, what is timelapse? It's a photographic technique where a...
Gian Luigi Carminati has spent the vast majority of his 76 years repairing cameras in a small Milan workshop. His incredible technical skills are on display in the video below, directed by David Drills.
Over the course of Carminati’s career, he has seen photography change dramatically. When he started, he says that...
Updated on December 5: Added information about "Rediscovering Genius: The Works of Edward S. Curtis" show
November is National American Indian Heritage Month, and as such it seems particularly appropriate to take a moment to look at the legacy of American photographer Edward S. Curtis.
Edward S. Curtis was an...
Long before Photoshop, portrait photographer Phillipe Halsman and surrealist painter Salvador Dalí collaborated many times after they first met in New York City in 1941. Interestingly, the two had both lived in the same Parisian neighborhood during the 1930s, but never formally met. After working an opening of a Dalí...
To celebrate the International Photography Hall of Fame and Museum's 50th anniversary, the Hall announced eight photographers and "photography industry visionaries" who will be inducted as part of the 2016 class.
The full list of inductees is as follows: Ken Burns, Ernst Haas, Steve Jobs, John Knoll, Thomas Knoll,...
Happy World Photo Day, photographers! The annual event, which aims to inspire photographers of all skill levels to share their world with everyone else, happens today because August 19, 1839 is when the French government purchased the patent for the Daguerreotype and shared it with everyone as a gift "free to the world."...
Earlier this year, I wrote a story about the New York Public Library (NYPL) adding nearly 200,000 high-resolution images to their Digital Collections archive. They opened up their files and offered an improved API for developers as well. Dan Vanderkam has taken advantage and collaborated with the NYPL to create what is...
If you're a photographer reading our site, it's likely that you greatly enjoy reading about the latest and greatest photography gear. However, sometimes it's nice to take a look back instead. Casual Photophile has done just that, with an article about five classic cameras that were used by famous photographers.
It's...
Ansel Adams' "Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico" is one of his most well-known photographs with Adams making over 1,300 prints of it during his career. A print was auctioned by Sotheby's in 2006 for over $600,000.
Part of what makes the photo particularly interesting is how it was created. Adams, his son Michael and...
Yesterday we saw a really cool video shot in a Mexican underwater cave using a Sony A7S, but did you know that the first underwater photograph was created way back in 1856 by William Thompson? This is but one of the fun facts included in The Telegraph's list of ten "useless but exceedingly interesting facts about 19th...
Lightning storms are one of nature's most exciting and fascinating displays. Part of the appeal of lightning is its amazing speed, which makes it impossible for the naked eye to see what's happening in the sky when each bolt strikes. Aiming to reveal the invisible, Professor Ningyu Liu at the Florida Institute of...
TheCameraStoreTV has recently started a brilliant Unsung Cameras of Yesteryear series (you can see their previous Unsung Cameras of Yesteryear video about the Fuji S5 Pro here) and this time they’re taking a look back at the Kodak NC2000e. They’re covering this interesting digital camera -- which was the first...
While you may never have heard his name, it's certainly possible you've seen the work of Harry Whittier Frees. The photographer, known for his anthropomorphic portraits of animals, was born in Reading, Pennsylvania in 1879.
His timeless photos evoke a wide variety of emotions and display timeless characteristics....
If you're a fan of combining multiple images to create a single artwork in Photoshop or one of its many rivals, you owe a tip of the hat to Oscar Gustave Rejlander, the man often referred to as the father of art photography. And what better way could there be to acknowledge his contribution to composite photography than to see a collection of never-before-exhibited Rejlander...
Robert Baggs at Fstoppers has compiled a list of ten must-see photography documentaries, noting that when he finds himself lacking in the inspiration department, watching a documentary on another photographer can help him get his creative juices flowing again.
One of the documentaries he lists is "Bill Cunningham...