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Some old ones. Two Women On A Cobblestone Street from our hotel room window in Nazare, Portugal Tri-x 120 cropped to be a vertical...

But both of those pale to what they were selling when the 500 cameras were their bread and butter (I suspect, but do not know this for...

So rather than cutting costs, you'd prefer they just go out of business? Hasselblad - for whatever reason - tried to live on their...

As someone who loves to shoot detritus, decay, and collapse, I must protest. All art is derivative, no matter how indirectly. That...

There is no incentive to make that billing and reconciliation process more efficient. The providers' primary model is to maintain...

I'm not sure that's quite fair. AA was trying to maintain a profitable business enterprise through his work. Weston was too busy...

The issue of aluminum is open and has only been shown to be slightly correlative, not causal, much like the recently touted study that...

Well, there's a place for all the above. But for myself, the building pictures I most resonate with are the ones that are abandoned...

I would hate to see Endura go, but I'd be delighted to see all aluminum cans for drinks disappear. They are lined with plastics (which...

Realistically, the market for Hasselblad products peaked decades ago. What's left is a shell of the company that likely struggles to...

With one exception: Karsh's portrait of Churchill. While not a street photo, it's the ultimate angry person glaring at the lens...

Everything claiming to be street photog raphy that called also be described as "candid photo of angry/scared looking woman" can gladly...

Well, a lot of the stuff we revere today is considered great because it has stood the test of time. HCB's work leaps to mind as...

In the words of AA, the negative is the score, the print is the performance. We have only some idea of how Bach wanted his own scores...

The same can be said for Bach... we only have his scores. And what survived was selected by men. Neither of those things impugns his...