By Stephen Shankland of CNET News:
“It’s one of the oldest, most common problems in photography: that picture you thought would be the prize shot is out of focus.
Refocus Imaging, a Silicon Valley start-up, thinks its technology can be used to make cameras that can fix that problem–after you take the photo.
By fitting a camera’s image [...]

From ArtDaily.org:
“ZURICH.-In the exhibition of around 30 photographs, ArteF Fine Art Photography Gallery present portraits of famous artists and other celebrities, for example Jean Arp, Max Ernst, Roy Lichtenstein, Piet Mondrian, Pablo Picasso, Ed Ruscha, Georgia O’Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz as well as I.M. Pei and Bill Clinton. For example, we see Igor Stravinsky sitting [...]

By Kristi Heim of The Seattle Times:
“Getty Images, the photo giant that spent the past 12 years acquiring dozens of smaller companies, has now agreed to be bought by private investors in a $2.1 billion deal.
Faced with declines in its core business and relentless hammering of its stock by Wall Street, the Seattle company said [...]

From ArtDaily.org:
“LOS ANGELES, CA.-Bonhams & Butterfields, the West Coast’s leading fine arts auctioneers, is pleased to announce that its May 20 and 21, 2008 sales of Fine Prints and Fine Photographs in San Francisco (and simulcast to Los Angeles) will feature rare and fresh-to market works by Robert Mapplethorpe, Frank Stella, Andy Warhol, Henri Cartier-Bresson, [...]

CBC News Reports: 
“A Los Angeles photography agency has launched an art exhibit billed as the first of its kind using paparazzi photos.
Paparazzi as an Art Form is a one week show featuring glossy shots of celebrities that are owned by the Buzz Foto agency.
Twenty-six photos grace the walls of the Maryam Seyhoun Gallery on Melrose [...]

By ArtDaily.org:
“LONDON.-To mark the National Portrait Gallery’s recent acquisition of a selection of photographs by Walter Hanlon, this display brings together his atmospheric portraits of the jazz scene in London in the 1950s. Including portraits of the most popular UK and US players of the period – amongst them Sir John ‘Johnny’ Dankworth, Humphrey Lyttelton [...]

From the Independent:
“What is the power of images? Take this one. It shows Tony Blair, in shirt and tie, facing more or less front, and grinning hard, as he takes his own photo. But behind him the scene is entirely filled with the smoke and fire [...]

By Stephen Shankland of CNET News:
“Geotagging, in which digital photos are labeled with the location where they were taken, is mostly unfamiliar to photographers today. But new developments are likely going to put the technology on the map.
In interviews at the Photo Marketing Association trade show in Las Vegas recently, several camera executives [...]

By Mark Jewell, AP Business Writer featured on NYDailyNews.com:
“BOSTON (AP) — When Jerry Conlogue heard Polaroid will soon stop producing its instant film, he worried about his mummies.
Conlogue uses Polaroid film when he travels deep into the Peruvian jungle to take X-ray photographs of ancient mummies so he doesn’t have to lug cumbersome developing chemicals. [...]

Story by Laura Nathan of PDNonline.com:
“Photojournalists faced a dangerous year in 2007, with violence claiming the lives of photographers in Iraq, Haiti and Myanmar, according to a new report from Reporters Without Borders. Including these photographers, 87 journalists were killed on the job in 2007, according to the Reporters Without Borders 2008 Annual Report, [...]