Stephen Shankland reports for CNet News:
“After pioneering a high-end photography software niche, then losing ground to Adobe Systems’ Photoshop Lightroom, Apple on Tuesday counterattacked with Aperture 2.0.
The software, like Adobe’s Lightroom, is aimed at enthusiasts and professionals who need to edit and catalog “raw” images, the unprocessed data from higher-end cameras’ image sensors; [...]

From ArtDaily.org:
“SAN DIEGO, CA.- From May 11–November 2, 2008, the San Diego Natural History Museum will present Aerial Portraits of the American West: Photographs by John Shelton. The black-and-white photography exhibition, a retrospective of Shelton’s work, marks the first time works by the well-known geologist will be exhibited for the public. Shelton is the author [...]

From ArtDaily.org:
“LONDON.-The National Portrait Gallery, London, presents Vanity Fairs Portraits: Photographs 1913 – 2008, on view through May 26, 2008. Some of the greatest portrait photographs of the twentieth century were taken for, or published in, Vanity Fair. This remarkable selection of 150 classic images features works from the magazine’s first period (1913­1936), displayed for [...]

Jay DeFoore reports for Pop Photo:
“UK photographer Tim Hetherington’s image of an exhausted U.S. soldier in a moment of respite after intense fighting in Afghanistan has won the 2007 World Press Photo Contest, one of the most prestigious prizes in photojournalism.
Hetherington made the photo of the unnamed soldier last September while on assignment for Vanity [...]

Max Brenn reports for eFlux media: 
“Polaroid Corp., the company become famous for its instant cameras and photos, has decided to close factories within the United States and abroad and will get out of making film for its venerable instant-picture cameras by the end of the year.
Polaroid, which used to have more than 15,000 employees in [...]

 The Canadian Press reports: 
“More than 60 vintage photographs of the Columbia River – the earliest dating from the 1880s – are on display at the Royal BC Museum.
“River of Memory: The Everlasting Columbia” captures what the river looked like before being transformed by a series of hydroelectric dams during the 20th century, said William [...]

Marcio Madeira photos Jourdan Dunn for British Vogue

Reuben Cox photos William Shatner for Details

By Randy Kennedy of the New York Times:
“The subjects of the velvety black-and-white pictures are not exactly Irving Penn’s elegantly dressed, or undressed, regulars: a plump charwoman with her bucket and brush; a bespectacled seamstress draped with her measuring tape; a deep-sea diver disappearing into his monstrous helmet and suit.

But Mr. Penn considered these blue-collar [...]

From the Associated Press reported on CNN.com:
“NEW YORK (AP) — More than 40 photographs owned by the descendants of Edward Weston will go on the auction block in April, where they are expected to fetch up to $1.4 million.

Weston, considered one of the most influential American photographers of the last century, is known for [...]