Tag: photography

What A Change in 35 Years

David Schonauer of American Photo has uncovered a rather stunning coincidence, the picture that’s been making the rounds of P.H. being hauled back to jail was taken by none other than Huynh Cong “Nick” Ut. Nick Ut, as you remember from Photo History 101, was the photographer who took one of the iconic pictures of the Vietnam war, the picture of Kim Phuc running naked down a country lane after suffering serious napalm burns. Ut’s photograph was arguably the apex of the notion of “The Concerned Photographer,” Cornell Capa’s phrase for the idea that photographs of injustices and atrocities could help correct the situations that led to them. And get this: the 2 pictures were taken exactly 35 years apart, to the day. Quite a coincidence.

ah the irony

Computational photography

Another alteration of a camera’s field of view makes it possible to shoot a picture first and focus it later. Todor Georgiev has developed a lens that splits the scene that a camera captures into many separate images.

capturing 3d from an image, allowing for sharpening after the fact etc.

In the same way that the transition from film to digital is now taken for granted, the shift from cameras to networked devices with lenses should be obvious. While we’ve long obsessed over the size of the film and image sensors, today we mainly view photos on networked screens—often tiny ones, regardless of how the image was captured—and networked photography provides access to forms of data that go beyond pixels.

a lot of words spent without saying anything non-obvious. the author fails to talk about Computational photography which is far far more interesting than the lame vintage filters we have seen so far.
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