The discovery of Vivian Maier's work has had a tremendous impact on the web and on the photographic world, so it was perhaps predictable that the output of some other heretofore unknown street photographers would start to get attention as well. One of th… more »

Because, yes, I will always jump at the chance to link to something about Weegee, here's an NPR story on some of his shots depicting murder and death. The original audio version of the story is on the same page. Weegee was really the first photographer… more »

Almost a year after the death of Buffalo's most famous photographer, Milton Rogovin, it's come to light that he was a subject of FBI surveillance with a file several hundred pages long. He was indeed a card-carrying member of the Communist Party as the s… more »

Every now and then I highlight the work of a photographer I've come across who may not necessarily be world famous but is nonetheless great. I found Shin Noguchi's images on Flickr and they're noteworthy because of his great visual eye along with his sub… more »

Just a brief follow-up to a post from a few months back on Stanley Kubrick's early career as a photojournalist for Look magazine. To my eye, this batch of images from New York also shows that he viewed most people as essentially interchangeable mannequin… more »

The world's largest camera and photography store, B & H in New York, now offers direct shipping to Canada through Purolator. This means that when you order your custom's brokerage fees, provincial sales tax, etc. are included in the order ahead of ti… more »

If you want to get an idea of what relaxed portraits look like, peruse the work of legendary photographer Norman Seeff. Originally from South Africa he became art director for United Artists Records in 1972. This gave him the chance to regularly shoot ma… more »

After reading about a recent seminar from the Leica Akademie, I discovered the work of street photographer Craig Semetko. I think his shots of Asia are more or less just travelogue material, but the rest of his work is very visually inventive and humouro… more »