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World's most
expensive Einstein photograph |
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The iconic photograph of the scientist
sticking his tongue out was sold by a New Hampshire auction company
for $74,330, making it the most expensive
Einstein
photograph to be ever
sold at an auction! The iconic photograph was taken by Arthur Sasse in
1951 while the scientist was celebrating his birthday. Arthur was
convincing Einstein to pose for a photo but the scientist stuck his tongue
out instead. |
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Jan 2010
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50 MILLION |
Canon has
announced the production of its 50 millionth EF lens. The specific lens
was one of the newly released EF 100mm f/2.8L Macro IS USMs. EF mount lens
production started in 1987.
In September 2009, Nikon announced the 50 millionth lens for its F mount,
launched in 1959.
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World's most
expensive sculpture |
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After eight minutes of furious bidding from
10 bidders, a life-size bronze sculpture of a man by Alberto Giacometti
was sold by Sothebys at a London auction for $104.3 million (R788M) – a
world record for the most expensive work of art ever sold at auction.
“L’Homme Qui Marche I” (Walking Man I) by
the 20th century Swiss artist is considered an iconic Giacometti work as
well as one of the most recognizable images of modern art.
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Feb 2010
Alberto Giacometti
most
expensive painting |
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World's most
reproduced photograph? |
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Picture of the Queen on British and Commonwealth Stamps |
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World's Most Expensive Lens?
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Leica Rumors
reports that this Leica Apo-Telyt-R 1:5.6/1600mm is for sale for US$2,064,489.
At the current exchange rate that converts to about R20M.
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Jan 2009
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World's Fastest Lens
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The Leica Noctilux has a
maximum aperture of ƒ/0.95, matching the speed of the S-mount Canon lens
of 1961 to put it in a tie for fastest production lens ever made for pictorial
photography.
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Cross section of the
1961 Canon 50mm ƒ0.95 made for the Canon 7 rangefinder camera |
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Sep 2008
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World's Longest Photo |
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Simon Hoegsberg, a photographer
from Denmark, spent 17 months making a single continuous print that is 100
meters long. It's called "We're All Gonna Die—100 Meters of Existence." The
photograph features 178 people shot over the course of 20 days, in Berlin.
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100 YEARS OF PHOTOGRAPHY
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The stamp shows Niecephore Niepce
(left), Louis J. M. Daguerre (right) and F. Arago (in the middle) while he
announces at the meeting of Academie Francaise the invention of
photography (January 1839). The stamp was issued to commemorate the 100th
anniversary of photography.
Country: France
Date of issue: 24 April 1939
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World's Biggest
Digital Camera |
| Cerro Pachon, a
desolate peak high above Chile in the Andes,
is to host the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, a near R3000m project that
will survey the entire sky several times a week - something never done
before. |
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take an image seven times the diameter of the moon, adding up, every three
days, to a full panorama of the heavens. Boasting 3,200 megapixels, it
will be the world's biggest digital camera |
| Bill Gates contributed
$10m from his private fortune and a former Microsoft colleague, Charles
Simonyi, gave $20m through his Fund for Arts and Sciences.
January 2008 |
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WORLD'S BIGGEST PHOTO
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Lucy Moore standing in the
centre of the 112,896 photograph mosaic which the artist Helen Marshall put
together with mosaic specialist PollyTiles. It measures 30 meters by 30 meters.
Aug 2008
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WORLD'S OLDEST PHOTO?
Historian Larry Schaaf stunned the world when he
said in a Sotheby's catalogue that The Leaf was in fact Thomas
Wedgwood's (1771-1805)
picture. Previously it was credited to William Henry Fox Talbot and
thought to be taken in 1839, when in fact it was taken a lot earlier.
June 2008
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POSSIBLY THE MOST REPRODUCED PHOTOGRAPH OF ALL TIME
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Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima is a historic photograph taken on
February 23, 1945, by Joe Rosenthal. It depicts five United States Marines
and a U.S. Navy corpsman raising the flag of the United States atop Mount
Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima in World War II. |
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The photograph was
extremely popular, being reprinted in thousands of publications. Later, it
became the only photograph to win the
Pulitzer Prize for Photography in the
same year as its publication, and ultimately came to be regarded as one of
the most significant and recognizable images of the war, and possibly the
most reproduced photograph of all time. |
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100 YEAR OLD AUTOCHROME
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Autochromes are amongst the world's oldest and rarest
colour pictures. This one by Edward Steichen
dates back to 1908.
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WORLD'S BEST SPORTS PHOTOGRAPH?
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| This photo, taken by Neil Leifer,
is rated as one of the best sports pictures of the previous
century. It shows Muhammed Ali standing over a floored Sonny
Liston. The shot was taken in Maine, USA on 25th May 1965. |
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Original Daguerreo-type camera auctioned in
Vienna |
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world's first camera being put to practical use was a creation of
Louis Daguerre. The camera that became known as a "Daguerreo-type,"
was first introduced at the French Academy of Science on August 19,
1839. A camera of this type, made by Susse Freres of France, was found
in an attic in Germany. The camera was auctioned in Vienna on May 26,
2007 for nearly $800,000, a very heavily inflated price compared to
the original list price of $50.
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WORLD'S SMALLEST CAMERA |
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| the Guinness Book of
Records list the Sakura Petal camera as the smallest ever made. It measured 29mm
in diameter and 16mm thick, producing six circular pictures on a 25mm
diameter film disc. |
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WORLD’S MOST EXPENSIVE
PHOTOGRAPH
Just a day after the Resale Right for Artists was
introduced in the UK,
the world record for the highest price paid for a photograph was set
when The Pond - Moonlight by Edward Steichen was sold in the US for
£1.6 million breaking quite spectacularly the previous record set just
last November when Richard Prince's Untitled (Cowboy) was sold at auction
for £720,000.
Had the sale of The Pond - Moonlight taken place in the UK, the
purchaser (whose name has not been disclosed) and the seller would have
been liable to pay Steichen's estate a resale royalty of about £9,000 due
to the introduction of the Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006.
Surely a drop in the ocean for anyone in the market for such a valuable
piece?
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MONSTER LENS
Carl Zeiss announced a totally unique 'monster lens', the built-to-order
Zeiss Apo Sonnar T* 1700 mm F4 lens. Designed to be used with a Hasselblad 6x6
medium format camera this monster lens weighs in at 256 kg and uses unique
methods for handling focusing. This lens becomes the largest telephoto lens for
non-military use anywhere in the world.
Sep 2006
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Top Magazine Cover
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| The number one magazine cover of the past 40 years in
the USA, was an image taken by Annie Liebowitz for
Rolling Stone of a naked John Lennon curled in a foetal position
around a clothed Yoko Ono. |
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This picture, taken in
a street in
Saigon during the Vietnamese war, shows Genl. Loan shooting a
Vietnamese prisoner. The picture is considered to be one of the five
greatest pictures of the 20th Century that helped to change
history.
It was taken by
Eddie Adams
(12/06/1933 – 19/09/2004). |
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George
Lawrence's Mammoth Camera |
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| 1900 - Lawrence stands beside the
lens with a giant lens cap under this left arm and a watch in his
right hand making the exposure. The roller curtain operator stands at
the rear and all attention is concentrated on the
train. |
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In 1995 National
Geographic's photographers shot 32,000 rolls of film on magazine
assignments. |
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| The photograph was taken by Yoko Ono
and is one of only six such prints. |
| It was expected to fetch up to £10,000
when it was put up for auction at Bonhams in London on 17th April 2002. |
| Lennon was killed outside his New York
apartment by obsessed fan Mark Chapman in 1980. |
| The photo shows the singer's famous
round spectacles next to a glass of water and on a table set against the
window of the couple's apartment overlooking Manhattan. |
| The print up for auction is owned by
Johnnie Walker, a fund-raiser for Artist Residencies of Tokyo, or ART.
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Leopold Mannes and Leo
Godowsky, the inventors of Kodachrome, timed their intricate processing
sequences by whistling the final movement of Brahms C-minor Symphony
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AT THE AUCTIONS
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Photographer
Andreas Gursky's "Paris, Montparnasse, 1993" was sold for
$600,000 in mid-November, a world auction record for a contemporary
photograph. The amount was double the existing record set for
Gursky. (His previous record was $310,500 for "Prada III,
1998," sold at Phillips de Pury & Luxembourg.)
Gursky's image was one of three photographers' work which hit record
highs at the Christie's sale of contemporary art in Rockefeller
Center, New York City. Gursky, Rineke Dijkstra and Bernd & Hilla
Becher all fetched world auction records, says Christie's.
Fourteen photographs by German artists from the Hans Grothe
Collection were up for auction, including a series of 22 images by
Bernd & Hilla Becher, which sold for $160,000, a record high for
the two photographers.
German shooter Thomas Demand equaled his existing auction record
when his 1997 work "Scheune (Barn)" was sold for $99,500.
Other record-breakers were Rineke Dijkstra's three portraits of
post-partum women, which fetched $105,000. The images were bought by
anonymous bidders.
Dec 2001
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WORLD'S
LARGEST SCANNER |
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Graham Nash,
of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young fame, owns the world's largest
scanner. He’s been taking pictures long before he became a singer and he
has been doing digital imaging since 1989.
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WORTH IT'S WEIGHT IN GOLD
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A copy of Helmut Newton's book Sumo
has been sold at an auction for a record R2m ($304,000). The book comes
with its own stand because is weighs 30kg. It has been signed by many of
the celebrities appearing in the book.
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| World's Largest Digital Photo Mosaic |
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A collage of photographs of 3,500
people has been turned into what is being described as the biggest
digital photo image ever created,
BBC News reported. The snapshots have been put together in a
mosaic which, when viewed from a distance, looks like an image of just
15 people. |
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Leica legends |
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Leica president and
CEO recently presented Czechoslovakia president Vaclav Havel with
a Leica M6 with serial number 2,500,000. Some other recipients
include Leica number 150,000 to Leopold Godowksy
and number 175,000 to Leopold Mannes, the inventors of Kodachrome
(1935) ; Leica 300,000 to Gustav Wilmanns and number 350,000 to
Wilhelm Schneider, the inventors of Agfacolor film. Dr. Ernest
Leitz received number 500,000 in 1950 and in 1955 Henri-Cartier
Bresson got number 750,000 on the occasion of the Biennale de
Photographie in Paris.
In 1960 Dr. Ludwig
Leitz got number 1,000,000 and Alfred Eisenstaedt got number
1,000,001. |
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WHAT'S IN A NAME |
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MINOLTA |
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Formed in 1928 under the name of
the Japan-Germany Camera Company by Kazuo Tashima, the name was
changed to Molta in 1931 from the German tiltle Mechanismus
Optik und Linsen von Tashima. The company name was
changed to Minolta in 1962 from the full name of Mechanical INstruments and OpticaL
by TAshima. |
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FUJI |
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The name of Fuji is simply taken from
the name of the highest mountain in Japan, Mount Fuji. |
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LEICA |
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Ernst Leitz started making lenses
for microscopes and telescopes in 1849, and it wasn't until 1911
when Oskar Barnack joined the Leitz firm that it made its
first camera. It was going to be called LECA, until someone
suggested that LEICA (LEItz CAmera)
sounded better. The name stuck. |
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The firm of Konishiroku Kogaku have
been involved in making photographic and lithographic materials for
over 200 years. It adopted the name Konica when it started
making cameras in the 1940's. |
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NIKON |
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The original name for Nikon was
Nippon Kogaku, meaning "Japanese Optical". The company was
formed in 1917 and its name was changed to Nikon in
1946 by taking the "Ni"
from Nippon and the "Ko"
from Kogaku and adding an "n". |
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MAMIYA |
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inventor and designer of the camera, Seiichi Mamiya. |
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CANON |
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The original name for CANON cameras
was "Kwanon", the Buddhist god of mercy. The first Kwanon
camera was built in a small Tokyo workshop in 1934. The name was
changed to CANON in 1935 to avoid offending religious groups. |
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GEORGE
EASTMAN COMMMITTED SUICIDE |
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The
invention of a simple box camera saw the beginning of amateur
photography and encouraged millions of people to take up this
hobby. The camera's advertising slogan "You press the
button, we do the rest" ensured
KODAK
became part of everyday language. |
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dream - photography for everyone - he committed suicide
leaving the world one message, "My work is done, why
wait?" |
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The largest
camera in the world is nearly 3 meters high, 3 meters wide and 14
meters long. It uses a 1600mm APO lens and has a bellows extension
of 7.5 meters. It tips the scales at 27 000 kg and was built by
Rolls-Royce in 1957. |
| The most expensive photograph sold at a Christies
auction fetched a whopping $398,500. (31/5/98). The photographer
is Alfred
Stieglitz and the title is: Georgia O'Keefe: Hands
with Thimble. The photographer
Man
Ray has four photographs in the top ten list. |
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The highest price Christies has
been paid for a camera was £55,750 for a 1882 Enjalbert revolver
camera. It was made in Paris and is extremely rare - less than 10 of them
being in museums worldwide.
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WORLD'S LARGEST
PHOTOGRAPH
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Singer Elton John poses with
British artist Sam Taylor-Wood in front of what is billed to be
the world's largest photograph. The image is 18m high and
stretches some 272m around the building housing the Selfridges
store in London. The work is the brainchild of Taylor-Wood. (AP)
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WORLD'S LONGEST LENS?
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| And you thought yours was big... Dan
Slater has gone to the complete extreme, testing telescopic lenses from a
Celestron 300mm through to a Russian made 1000mm lens and the amazing Perkin
Elmer 4572mm f11 Missile Tracking Lens coupled with a Nikon TC301 x2
teleconverter giving a HUGE 9144mm.
Yes... that's a car jack.
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MILLION DOLLAR PICTURE |
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