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“Three years ago, Arne Svenson, a photographer living in lower Manhattan, inherited a CT-501 500-mm. Nikon telephoto lens from a bird-watching friend,” writes Raffi Khatchadourian in this week’s New Yorker.
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Mr. Winogrand was so prolific that he could hardly be bothered to edit his work. A new retrospective explores the relentless output of a complicated artist.
The meta augmented reality glasses is a Kickstarter project that, if completed, will provide the give the world an affordable augmented reality pair of glasses
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The complex mechanisms that conspire to attack our bodies often have an beguiling allure that belies their malevolent nature. That’s the theme behind Hidden Beauty, a new book of medical…
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Hélène Binet’s architectural photos pit light against dark to evoke depth. From her days photographing dancers, she has plumbed the tension in seemingly empty spaces.
Google Glass isn’t the only Android-based wearable computer in town. Introducing the Jet HUD computer, with built in sunglasses and rugged design.
Brief Encounters, a 2012 documentary directed by Ben Shapiro, follows acclaimed photographer Gregory Crewdson’s decade-long quest to create a series of haunting, surreal and stunningly elaborate portraits of small-town American life — a depiction of a disturbing and imperfect world. Crewdson’s fascinating photographs are elaborately staged, well-designed narratives compressed into a single image. Many of them taken at twilight, set in small towns of Western Massachusetts or meticulously recreated interior spaces, built on the kind of sound stages associated with big-budget movies.
