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Wednesday, January 14, 2009 08:13am EST
This is the first time that an official presidential portrait was taken with a digital camera. A new official portrait was released today of Barack Obama. It was taken by Pete Souza, the new official White House photographer.
View it, and if you like, download a copy here.
For the curious digerati, the EXIF data are:
Canon EOS 5D Mark II
January 13th, 2009 at 5:38 pm
no flash
105mm lens
f/10
1/125
ISO of 100
Gabriele Basilico: Intercity
Cohen Amador Gallery
41 East 57th Street, 6th floor
NYC
January 7 – March 6, 2009
Excerpt from the press release:
The Cohen Amador Gallery is pleased to announce “Intercity”, cityscapes by internationally renowned Italian photographer Gabriele Basilico. Pooled from his most recent bodies of work, the exhibition articulates Basilico’s lifelong fascination with the city as a densely collaged environment. The stunningly diverse and engaging range of Basilico’s city subjects are accentuated and emphasized by his technical mastery: an old school obsession with contrast and tonal richness which mixes with a post-industrial subject worthy of prolonged reflection.
10.29.2008 - 01.17.2009
The New York Times
Published: January 7, 2009
Michael Kimmelman writes:
The photographer Gisèle Freund was born in Berlin in 1908, fled to France in 1933, then had some shows and books published in Germany during her later years that returned her to local attention. (She died in 2000.) Her portraits presently occupy the exhibition hall at the Willy Brandt Haus in Berlin. The Ephraim-Palais, also in Berlin, has some of the lesser-known pictures she shot when she returned briefly to visit postwar Berlin in 1957 and 1962.
First Doubt: Optical Confusion in Modern Photography
Through – January 4, 2009
From the Yale University Art Gallery website:
Celebrating a major gift of over two hundred photographs from the collection of Allan Chasanoff, B.A. 1961, this exhibition will explore the seldom-discussed phenomenon of optical confusion in photography. Drawn from the Chasanoff Collection, as well as from the Gallery's permanent collection, First Doubt will feature approximately one hundred photographs by a diverse array of photographers across the twentieth century. Seen together, they reveal the interpretive nature of the lens and the interpolative nature of the photograph.