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Nayar saw the Academy Award–winning Born into Brothels, a 2004 documentary film about children living in Calcutta’s red light district who were handed cameras and joyfully taught to reveal the life before their eyes. “The film reaffirmed that the camera is like no other piece of technology,” he said. It raises emotions “both for the person being shot and for the person shooting.”

It just might be, according to New York: An Illustrated History, by Ric Burns and James Sanders. Taken at Broadway between Franklin and Leonard Streets, it’s believed to date to May 1850.

Andre Kertesz

Indonesia born photographer and illustrator Agan Harahap uses his Photoshop skills to insert pictures of some of our beloved superheroes like Spiderman, Superman and Batman into memorable political and wartime photos from the mid-20th century in his new project called “Superhero Photography”.

En conservant la structure des dossiers, enrichie d’une information contextuelle précise, l’une des belles démonstrations qu’apporte ce travail est de montrer combien le document photographique constitue la trace, moins du réel ou de la vérité des faits, que des déterminations imposées par les circonstances de la commande. Ce que la photographie constitue, dans chacun des contextes explorés, est très précisément la fiction attendue par le commanditaire.

His real name is unknown. Kohei Yoshiyuki is a pseudonym for an ordinary commercial photographer who, for a brief period in the 1970s, documented a strange subterranean aspect of Tokyo culture. After a short interlude of notoriety, Yoshiyuki quietly disappeared from the art scene.

Flocl is a set of tools for creating a local copy of your Flickr photostream.

# FlickrTouchr - a simple python script to grab all your photos from flickr, dump into a directory - organised into folders by set - along with any favourites you have saved. You can then sync the photos to an iPod touch.

Shorpy is a great source for old photographs.The big add that Shorpy’s has, however, is the community. It’s not just a photo of a library, it’s also people commenting about their memories of the library including where else they’ve seen that certain floor tile

During his more than 14 years in Hong Kong, German-born photographer Michael Wolf‘s perspective on his adopted city has boiled down to an essence of density – the hemmed-in, closely built environment which shapes everything from its peoples‘ lifestyles to their outlooks and even dreams. In Hong Kong Inside Outside, Wolf collects the works of his two previous collections – Architecture of Density and 100x100 – into a two-volume set focusing on the visual elements of one of the world’s most crowded cities.