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 »

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 »

It's been announced that film director Ken Russell has passed away at age 84. What most people probably don't realize is that he started out as a photographer, and a street photographer no less. Sadly most of his work was destroyed in a fire several year… more »

It might be I'm the only one in the world who will find this amusing, but with stories in the press almost every day about celebrities having run-ins with photographers - and vice versa - it's maybe refreshing to read about such a run-in in Ottawa as far… more »

By fluke the other day I found the City of Toronto's online catalogue of digitized photographs. It's not obvious right away how to see the images:  you must first pick a series that interests you, then click on the link that says 'browse' and then look f… more »

With the World Series just hours away, here's a look - via Time - at some classic baseball pics from the early 20th Century, including two iconic shots of Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig. They're all from the recently released The Big Show: Charles M. Conlon's… more »

Memory is a funny thing. We manufacture our memories as much as we recollect them, though I swear all of my memories are 100% accurate. Collective memory is an even stranger beast, as certain aspects of our past simply slip away and other aspects are emp… more »

Vivian Maier's a big deal now, a complete unknown whose work only came to be widely appreciated after her death. But this isn't the first time such a thing has happened. Mike Disfarmer was a small town portraitist in Arkansas during the Depression. His… more »