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The 13 Most Worthless Majors

Matt Cantor — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 12:57:22 CDT

Hey, college students: If your life plans include getting an actual job, you may want to avoid the stars of the Daily Beast 's "most useless" majors list. Majors are ranked in terms of employment, taking into account unemployment rates among recent and experienced grads, earnings, and likely job growth...

Why You Need to Take a Photo on May 15

Tue, 10 Apr 2012 14:01:30 CDT

Want to be in the same company as a Swedish pop singer, an anti-apartheid icon, a former Irish president, and thousands of people around the world? Then pick up your camera on May 15 and help capture a day in the life of the planet. The project— aday.org —is...

Shoot First, Focus Later: Camera Is 'Game-Changer'

Evann Gastaldo — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 13:42:06 CST

The company behind the Lytro camera calls its technology "the first major change in photography since photography was invented," and reviewers seem to agree. By analyzing and storing all the points of light in any given photo, the Lytro allows users to refocus the subject, or focus on an entirely...

Photographer Lillian Bassman Dead at 94

Evann Gastaldo — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 13:00:05 CST

Lillian Bassman, who shot to fame as a self-taught photographer and the daring art director of a Harper's Bazaar spin-off, died yesterday at 94 in her Manhattan home. Bassman, born in Brooklyn and raised in the Bronx, studied fabric design and fashion illustration, and became a protégé of Alexey Brodovitch,...

And the Photo of the Year Is...

Matt Cantor — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:24:05 CST

A photo of a veiled woman comforting an injured man following a protest in Yemen has won the World Press Photo of the Year for 2011. The photo, taken by Spanish photographer Samuel Aranda for the New York Times , "shows a poignant, compassionate moment, the human consequence of an enormous...

Kodak Files for Bankruptcy

Rob Quinn — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 06:30:00 CST

The once-mighty Eastman Kodak company has filed for bankruptcy. The 131-year-old firm, unable to reinvent itself quickly enough for the digital age, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection this morning after running out of cash to fund its turnaround, the Wall Street Journal reports. The company says it has secured...

Photo Album Worth $4.5M

Matt Cantor — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 17:50:00 CST

Few have heard of Henry Peter Bosse, but his 19th-century photographs have earned a home in a federal vault—and a single album is worth $4.5 million. Sotheby's recently appraised the album, which illustrates the changing Mississippi River in the 1880s, and its value had quadrupled over 20 years....

Behold the World's Priciest Photo

Kevin Spak — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 13:25:05 CST

Have you ever gazed upon a river and thought, “This would make a lovely photograph that someone would pay millions of dollars for”? No? Well, that’s why you’re not Andreas Gursky. A chromogenic color print of the Gursky photo below, entitled Rhein II , sold for a whopping $4.3 million...

Groom Sues Photographer, Wants Wedding Re-Created

John Johnson — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 19:21:41 CDT

It's hard to truly capture the weirdness of this lawsuit recounted by the New York Times . Is it because a Manhattan groom is suing a photography studio over what he says are lousy wedding photos? Not at all. Because he waited six years to file the suit? Nope. Because he...