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Diane Keaton's photobooth strips match Abraham Lincoln's assassination hat at auction: here's what that tells us about the actress's photographic eye

When Diane Keaton died last October, I wrote about the immense photographic legacy that ran alongside her acting career. Her nine books, her rescued archives, her decades of work with a Rolleiflex that most people never knew about. Now, with the results in from Bonhams’ four-part auction of her estate, it’s clear that collectors understood something critics are still catching up to. The sale…
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RIP David Hockney: the famous artist who also pushed forward photography, with a little help from Picasso

Throughout my lifetime, I’ve seen David Hockney described as the “world’s greatest living painter”. Sadly, that no longer applies: the artist born in Bradford, England in 1937 died yesterday, one month short of his 89th birthday. Most tributes will focus on his famous paintings: his swimming pools, his Yorkshire landscapes, his double portraits. But I think there’s an added reason to…
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The Art of Street Photography: why Joshua K. Jackson and Sean Tucker's book wants you to stop chasing the shot with your camera

Street photography has never been more popular. With over 134 million #streetphotography posts on Instagram and an explosion of dedicated collectives and online communities, the genre has become the gateway drug of choice for a new generation of photographers. Yet the wealth of tutorials, gear guides and technique-focused advice available online often misses the point. A lot of street photography…
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Freelancing as a female photographer? This genre is where you'll suffer the largest gender pay gap

Across several freelance industries, women charge an average of 19 percent less than male peers, a new study suggests. But the data also hints at the photography genres with the largest pay gap between genders. The study comes from cross-border payment company Remitly, who compiled data using freelancer rates on the global freelance platform Upwork. Using this data, the group studied the…
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