Side By Side: Trailer

Digital technology has created a groundbreaking evolution in cinema, challenging film as the standard format for motion pictures. In the new documentary Side By Side, Keanu Reeves takes us on a tour of the past and future of the moviemaking process.

edward turner . . .

United Kingdom's National Media Museum revives first-ever film shot in color

In this image released by Britain's National Media Museum on Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2012, a scarlet Macaw on a perch, circa 1902, is depicted amongst the earliest colour moving pictures ever made, which have been rediscovered after more than 100 years. The footage, made by cinematic pioneer Edward Turner in around 1901, was found in the archives of the National Media Museum in Bradford and with the help of experts at the BFI National Archive was transformed into watchable digital files. AP Photo/National Media Museum. 

By: Raphael G. Satter, Associated Press

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jesse burke . . .

August 20, 2012

JESSE BURKE’S INSTAGRAM TAKEOVER

Posted by Maria Lokke

Last week, the photographer Jesse Burke took The New Yorker’s Instagram feed with him around New England, posting photos from wherever he went: a Vermont wedding, snorkeling on the coast of Rhode Island, and other adventures around his home in Providence with his two beautiful daughters and two odd-looking cats. Burke, an avid Instagram user (follow him at @jesse_burke), is part of a growing contingent of professional photographers using the image-based social-media app as an outlet for their work. “Instagram has been really helpful in making the photo world an even smaller place, which is something I really like about it.” told me. “I’ve gained a lot of new relationships that I may have never made in real life. The Internet makes distance a non-issue.” I asked Burke how his Instagram photos compared with his professional and personal work. “My personal work is very considered and more or less produced,” he said. “I use Instagram in the opposite way. It’s quick and dirty, always on the fly. My personal work is meant to be seen as a collection of photographs that act as pieces to a larger puzzle. I use Instagram as a constant stream of thought that doesn’t end, hopping all around from location to location, thought to thought.”

Burke is the second guest photographer in our new series of Instagram takeovers. (The first was Martin Schoeller.) Here’s a selection of favorites from Burke’s week at the wheel of @newyorkermag.

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joseph nicephore niepce . . .

Joseph Nicéphore Niépce’s “View from the Window at Le Gras” (1826), known as the world's earliest surviving photograph, is to be shown in Mannheim at the Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen, the museum announced to the press on Monday. Housed normally in the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas, the photograph was last exhibited in Europe on 1961. Niépce’s tin plate photograph will be show as part of the exhibition “The Birth of Photography: Milestones from the Gernsheim Collection,” opening on Septemper 9.

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Joseph Nicéphore Niépce’s “View from the Window at Le Gras” (1826)

basic approaches to photography . . .