On the cover: Albert Watson's "Golden Boy, New York City, 1990," was shot using theatrical gold paint as makeup for a personal project following an advertising shoot.

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Eleanor Callahan, the wife and muse for photographer Harry Callahan, died after a bout with cancer at the age of 95. Known for her jet-black hair and curvaceous frame, Eleanor was photographed hundreds of times by her husband between the years of 1941 and his death in 1999. Harry's most notable shot of Eleanor shows her...

United States-based private equity firm The Blackstone Group will buy 44 percent of Leica Camera. The deal, which will be completed by...

Monsoon rain and flooding last October in Thailand caused significant losses for Nikon, Canon and Sony manufacturing plants in the region. According to the Bangkok Post, the industrial park where Sony resides suffered $1 million in damages. Floodwaters there took nearly a month to recede. Sony's plant, which produces CCS and...

Among the winners at the 2011 Lucie Awards this past October were notable photographers Bill Eppridge, Dawoud Bey and Rich Clarkson.

Eppridge, who covered the Beatles' 1964 arrival in America, Robert Kennedy's 1968 presidential campaign and assassination, and the...

Two weeks after he won first prize in the 2012 World Press Photo contest, French photojournalist Rémi Ochlik was killed by rocket fire during a Feb. 22 military assault on the town of Homs, Syria. He was 28.

Ochlik's passion for photography began when his grandfather gave him an Olympus OM-1 film camera. After graduating from high school, he went to Paris to study photography at...

While stationed at a media center in Homs, Syria, two award-winning journalists — American war correspondent Marie Colvin, 55, and French photojournalist Rémi Ochlik, 28 — were killed on Feb. 22 in a Syrian army rocket attack during the recent uprising against the country's president, Bashar al-Assad.

Another journalist, British photographer Paul Conroy, was seriously injured in the attack and was smuggled out of Homs a week later by...

The surge of "Occupy" protests at the end of 2011 and the increased availability of handheld recording devices have led to a rise in citizen photojournalism. In the struggle to balance police rights and personal rights, this phenomenon could have some serious repercussions on law enforcement.

For one, police must now be aware that amateur photographers may be keeping watch on them, as an officer in Oakland, Calif., learned this past winter when he...

In another bow to the rapid rise in usage of the camera phone, CNN laid off more than 50 people from its news staff at the end of 2011, including nearly a dozen photojournalists, according to a report from Reuters.

CNN senior vice president Jack Womack wrote in a company memo that it was cheaper to rely on...

In its latest wave of financial amputations, the Eastman Kodak Co. has announced plans to stop making digital cameras, pocket video cameras and digital picture frames in the first half of 2012.

Since filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection earlier this year, Kodak has said there would be...