Saturday, September 12, 2009

French Photographer Willy Ronis Dead at 99 - NYTimes.com

French Photographer Willy Ronis Dead at 99 - NYTimes.com: "PARIS (AP) -- Willy Ronis, the last of France's postwar greats of photography who captured the essence of Paris in black and white scenes of everyday life, died Saturday. He was 99."

Thursday, July 9, 2009

Section 44 in Chatham High Street. | monaxle : blog

Section 44 in Chatham High Street. | monaxle : blog: "I went down to Chatham High Street today to take some pictures of the flyover being demolished (that’s another post to come) and to use up a film I’ve had in a camera for over a year. Doing so had some unexpected consequences"

Photo Reporter - Photography Industry News

Photo Reporter - Photography Industry News: "Ritz Camera Centers, Inc., the country’s largest specialty camera retailer, has filed documents in federal bankruptcy court to place its remaining 400 stores up for auction or liquidation by the end of July."

Friday, June 26, 2009

Online Electronics Stores Caught in Consumer Fraud - City Room Blog - NYTimes.com

Online Electronics Stores Caught in Consumer Fraud - City Room Blog - NYTimes.com: "...These were the illegal tactics used by seven online electronic stores — including Sonic Photo — as they swindled customers seeking cameras, camcorders, projectors and other items out of hundreds of thousands of dollars, the state attorney general, Andrew M. Cuomo, said on Thursday in a news release....The companies, all of which are based in Brooklyn, have agreed to pay a $765,000 settlement after a lengthy investigation by the attorney general’s office...As part of the deal, five of the companies — Best Price Camera, Foto Connection, 1 Way Photo, 86th Street Photo and Broadway Photo — have agreed to change their business practices and accept continual monitoring. Two other companies, Camera Wiz and Sonic Photo, will close."

Monday, June 8, 2009

Canon to build new digital camera factory

Canon to build new digital camera factory: "TOKYO (Dow Jones)--Canon Inc. (7751.TO) has decided to proceed with the construction of a new digital camera factory in southern Japan after a six-month delay, in a sign of the nation's manufacturing sector shifting gear to boost production through capital spending.

Tokyo-based Canon, which makes a wide range of electronics goods, said Friday it will start building the new plant in Nagasaki in July, with operations starting in April 2010. The firm cited a recovery in demand for digital single lens reflex cameras as the reason for its decision."

Sunday, May 24, 2009

Benjamen Chinn dies at 87; photographer documented San Francisco's Chinatown - Los Angeles Times

Benjamen Chinn dies at 87; photographer documented San Francisco's Chinatown - Los Angeles Times: "Benjamen Chinn, one of the few Chinese American photographers to live and artfully document street scenes in San Francisco's Chinatown, has died. He was 87.

Often photographing from the doorway of his home in Chinatown, Chinn began training his camera on his neighborhood in the late 1930s, but his most productive years were from 1947-1949 while he was studying at what is now the San Francisco Art Institute"

Saturday, May 23, 2009

Photographer, Author, Bill Jay, 69

Photographer, Author, Bill Jay, 69: "COSTA RICA (May 14, 2009) – Photographer, professor, and popular author Bill Jay, 69, founder of the program of photographic studies at Arizona State University, died Sunday in Samara, Costa Rica, where he lived in retirement, according to friends.COSTA RICA (May 14, 2009) – Photographer, professor, and popular author Bill Jay, 69, founder of the program of photographic studies at Arizona State University, died Sunday in Samara, Costa Rica, where he lived in retirement, according to friends."