3D

The Future of the 3D Image Library: CEPIC Week

CREDIT:i3DLife on iPad

Published on 15 May 2012

The 3D image experience is becoming more familiar on the big screen and even in the living room. But Chris Bamford and i3DLife are creating a library of 3D imagery and an iPad app that is already proving very popular in areas such Education, Medicine, Art Galleries. But as Bamford tells us, in the age of Tablets, and new kinds of publishing, we have barely scratched the surface on the opportunities for 3D imaging...read more.

CEPIC Congress

Fast Technology Spurs Visual Search: Cepic Week

CREDIT:Image Source / Aurora Open

Published on 14 May 2012

Advances in computer technology and machine learning may change how we search for pictures. Mathieu Chuat from Xerox, pictures the changing world of picture search...read more.

Look! No Branding

Brand Stops Use Of “F” Word In Naked Car Ad

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Published on 10 May 2012

In remarkable twist on branding and imagery, a new ad for a major car manufacturer highlights the qualities of the car, hiding the logo. And goes viral...read more.

Spring Issue

Dollhouse Crime Scenes in FOAM Magazine

CREDIT:Cover of The Nutshell Studies book by photographer Corinne May Botz

Published on 25 Apr 2012

Spring issue of photography magazine FOAM on the theme of miniatures features an unlikely crime scene project by Corinne May Botz...read more.

Photo Industry

Big Debates In Commercial Photography At CEPIC

CREDIT:Image Source/ Inpix RF

Published on 24 Apr 2012

This year’s CEPIC congress (Coordination of European Picture Agencies Stock, Press and Heritage) is being held in London from 16-18 May, with Photocentric Day featuring some big debates...read more.

Fashion Movies

Christian Dior And The Moodboard Movie

CREDIT:Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin for Christian Dior

Published on 9 May 2012

Photographic duo Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin, shoot Dior’s Secret Garden. The film highlights a new kind of image-making...read more.

Icon of the Auto

Five Messages of Car Images In Advertising

CREDIT:Image Source / Rob Casey

Published on 2 May 2012

Car images have been powerful vehicles (excuse the pun) for advertising messages and in a week which has seen some great new car ads, we look at some classic car imagery and the core marketing messages they convey...read more.

Size Matters

New Volkswagen Ads In Tradition of Think Small

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Published on 1 May 2012

A set of new ads from DDB Sydney, and shot by Andreas Bommert, highlights the advantage of new Volkswagen technology in squeezing a car into small parking space...read more.

Human Dreams

Oxfam's Stunning Night Photo Exhibition

CREDIT:Oxfam / Alejandro Chaskielberg: Mary Otabo and her family

Published on 17 Apr 2012

Alejandro Chaskielberg's night photos of a community recovering from drought but hit by rising food prices has a poetic honesty often missing from charity photos. The Sony World Photographer of the Year highlights Oxfam's GROW campaign...read more.

ISM Note

30 Year Anniversary: How E.T. Shaped The Imagery of Childhood

CREDIT:Image Source / Charles Gullung

Published on 8 May 2012

Released in 1982 the huge success of Steven Spielberg’s E.T. was due to passing itself off as a movie about an alien, but in reality was it was a touching exploration of the changing nature of the American family, single-parenting, and most of all the private lives of children. And it changed the imagery of childhood...read more.

Photo Prize

Vogue, Harper’s and NYT Magazine Win Photo Awards

CREDIT:Alex Prager for The New York Times Magazine

Published on 8 May 2012

The National Magazine Awards selected some stunning photography at their awards ceremony...read more.

Portraits

First Dance, First Tux, First Love - The Prom Photo

CREDIT:Mary Ellen Mark, Prom project

Published on 25 Apr 2012

As Prom season begins, National Public Radio reports on the photo project by Mary Ellen Mark, a book of portraits capturing that twilight moment between teenager and adulthood that is Prom night...read more.

Trends

5 Trends We Learned This Week

CREDIT:IKEA Cam

Published on 27 Apr 2012

From cheap-looking-but-cool-because-of-it-cameras to cool-moves-without-looking-cool...read more.

Ghost From The Past

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Published on 11 May 2012

The classic spooky special effect of the double-exposure...read more.

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