From Guardian Unlimited:
“For 60 years, Jane Bown has been capturing the world as she sees it, from her iconic portraits – John Lennon, Bertrand Russell, Bjork – to her heartfelt images of the everyday – a Grimsby docker, a gypsy child, a ball of string. But she was never happier than when out and about [...]

By Ciar Byrne of The Independent:
“They were the pioneers of photography, the artists of a medium that would transform our perceptions of reality through the invention of the calotype – a delicate print made from a paper negative – by an Englishman, William Henry Fox Talbot.
Now, the first major exhibition of this British art form [...]

By Daryl Lang at PDNonline.com:
“With photography groups protesting a new plan that sets a standard $49 rate for web usage of stock images, Getty Images announced a small concession Friday.
“In listening carefully to feedback from photographers, we have decided to reduce the duration of rights-ready and rights-managed web-resolution licenses to 3 months,” said Nick Evans-Lombe, [...]

By Joanne Jarvis of the Evening Telegraph:

“A TALENTED photographer with a thirst for travelling journeyed 3,500 miles on the back of a motorbike to visit poverty- stricken children affected by the world’s worst nuclear power accident.

James Kenny (23), who studied photography and journalism at Peterborough Regional College, has just returned from Belarus and Ukraine, taking [...]

By Daryl Lang for PDNonline.com:
“The farmer, Andrew E. Marsinko, filed a lawsuit against several people and companies involved in the photograph and the greeting card, including stock photo heavyweights Getty Images and Jupitermedia.
The suit was filed Sept. 12 in Roanoke County Circuit Court in Virginia.
The greeting card features a black-and-white portrait of Marsinko holding a [...]

Martin Gayford of Bloomberg.com writes:
“Lee Miller told a reporter in 1932, “I would rather take a picture than be one.”
That’s the nub of her career, which moved from model to surrealist photographer and war reporter, and the central ambiguity in a new show at [...]

As reported by Rich Davies at Slashgear.com:
“With a scalloped rim guaranteed to make all the ladies say “cheese!” the latest in Hasselblad’s range of so-bloody-good-you-sob digital-SLR cameras, the H3D-II, turns the hotness dial all the way up to 39… megapixels, that is.  It’s all handled by a whopping 48 x 36mm CCD (there are 31 [...]

David B. Brooks of Shutterbug reports:
“Some believe film is dead, but I get as many e-mails from photographers as ever asking about film scanning. The reason is that digital cameras have brought more photographers into using a computer for photography so now they want to access [...]

By American Photo Staff for PopPhoto.com:
“We the people, the dominant species on planet Earth, are losing the memory of what makes nature natural. Pastures become parking lots. Blue skies choke on molecules they were never meant to hold. Hearts that have beaten in the chests of species for eons go silent. And as the natural [...]

By Amy Baldridge of PopPhoto.com:
“Software maker Image Trends has announced a new AutoMatting program that automatically creates custom digital mats for photographs, and sizes them to a selected aspect ratio. This creates a consistent look for vertical and horizontal photographs shown together on any kind of display device and eliminates black bars. AutoMatting can process [...]