To get a good idea of how mature photographic technology really is, go through this series at In Focus, culled from the work of Timothy O'Sullivan. Remember these shots were taken before any city in the world had an electrical system. My fave: the imag… more »

Here's a wonderful little series of previously unseen photographs taken from New York City's Department  of Public Records. Most date from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and the city is making a gallery of almost a million such images available… more »

Informative article at the LA Times to help launch a retrospective of Herb Ritts' work at the Getty Museum. Compared to the smoothed over fashion photography today, his work looks positively gritty. If you're in LA and want to see this, remember that the… more »

Before it collapsed the Soviet Union had its own internal infrastructure of technology:  cars, planes, and yes, cameras. Many of these cameras were (by Western standards) weird-looking, shoddy and downright horrible. Some were quite good though, and that… more »