Amassing a Treasury of Photography - New York Times
The New York Times is out today with an interesting article entitled,
Amassing a Treasury of Photography. The article details the current
project Photomuse.org (now
only active as a test site) as a collaboration between the George
Eastman House in Rochester and the International Center of Photography
in Midtown New York City to collaboratively build an very large online
digital library of fine art photography.

"Many iconic images,
the kind long found on posters and greeting cards - Stieglitz's shot of
a spindly tree framed by New York office towers on a rainy spring day;
Weegee's teeming Coney Island hordes; Lewis Hine's "Icarus Atop Empire
State Building" - will be joined by thousands of other works by eminent
artists that the general public has rarely had an opportunity to see.
There will also be collections of lesser-known photographers like Roman
Vishniac, James VanDerZee and Ralph Eugene Meatyard."

The
article recognizes copyright issues with current photographers as well
some artists being worried about the lost revenue if their photos are
posted on the internet publically.

I think this is a terribly
exciting and ambitious project and wish them luck in their endeavors.
At current Eastman has digitized almost 140,000 of it's photos and the
International Center has digitzed about 30,000 images.

I hope
that as they pursue this venture that they use high res versions of
these photographs. Nothing ruins a great photography site more than
having low res images only. In order to view the true beauty and depth
having high res versions should be mandatory.

Yesterday I posted an interview I did with Sam Javanrouh from Daily Dose of Imagery. I think it turned out well and may give you  some insight on the man behind the pictures.

Cheers
Rannie

I just wanted to let everyone know about a new initiative that we're starting over at Camerapedia.org.  As we've been building the encyclopedia of cameras we've realized that several camera/photography terms keep popping up, so we decided to make a glossary of all these terms.  This new Photography Glossary will be helpful for anyone who would like to know more about cameras or photography.

The best part is that this is a wiki, so anyone can go in and add information or fix anything that's already there.  And it's all under the GNU Free Documentation License, so this information is available for anyone to use in their own projects.

So, check it out, add some terms, and tell us what you think.

On Thursday July 21st we will be having our next Toronoto Photoblogger Get Together at Shanghai Cowgirl. Come out and have a drink or eat some great food. Our special guest will be Mr Bill aka Out if Contxt from Chicago.

Thursday July 21st
Shanghai Cowgirl
538 Queen St. W. (east of Bathurst)
at 8 pm.

Please RSVP on the TAP website by Tuesday if you can make it, so I can make an approximate reservation.

Cheers Rannie

At the risk of losing any chance I had of winning it I thought I'd bring the BBC's A Digital Picture of Britain to everyone's attention.

The competition closes on 31st July, 2005 and the idea is to submit landscape pictures which provide a unique look at Britain. Rules are loosely, no portraits, upto 25 photos may be submitted and entries must be from people currently resident in the UK. Full rules can be found here.

Each category winner and overall winner will recieve about £500 of photographic equipment and be featured on various BBC programmes which would be pretty cool! Spread the word and good luck!

Introducing some high class black and white street photography from New York.

New York Moments

With only 18 'favourites' I think this is a really underrated new site. I'll let the images speak for themselves

Photoblogs.org profile

The Bay Area Photobloggers are getting together, Tuesday July 19, 7 - 9 pm at Crossroads Cafe in South Beach,* San Francisco. We hope you can make it.

BAP has also joined the Photobloggers.org family with sf.photobloggers.org.

* Raise your hand if you've never heard of South Beach. Think South Park but further east, near the ballpark. Yay for real estate marketing silliness.

We've just launched the second issue of MakingRoom Magazine

MakingRoom.com

This issue features: the photography of Mark Tucker, Linn Schroder, Misty Keasler, Sara Padgett, Tanya Zani, and Davida Nemeroff. Plus: the mixed media art of Matthew Curry and the unique mission of Kids with Cameras.

MakingRoom is a magazine about the process, intention and results of image-making.

Please get in touch with us if you have comments, suggestions, or spot any of my late-night typos.

I know this probably isn't the best place to post about this. I just heard the news of the terrorist blasts in London. I know the last thing people are thinking about in the area is hopping online to check out photoblogs.org. But at the same time I know there is a large number of London Area photobloggers.

I hope you are all okay. It would be great if you could check in!

There are already some pictures from London on the London Photobloggers site.

You are all in my thoughts

Rannie aka photojunkie

We're happy to announce that the Houston Photobloggers site has now joined the ever expanding family of photobloggers.org sites.  You can find us online at houston.photobloggers.org (many thanks to Brandon for the help and support).

If you are a photoblogger in the Houston area or Texas in general and want to contribute, join in on the discussion, organize photo outings, post pictures or be linked in our blogroll, we'd love to hear from you!  Contact details and FAQs are posted on the site.

We hope this will be a wonderful start to a strong Houston photoblogging community and a great place to share ideas, news and photography related events in htown.

Cheers,

Ninds, Laanba and Saroy