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Direct Arcade Fire’s New Music Video
Imagine watching a music video and simultaneously directing it. Vincent Morisset, a self-described “web-friendly” director, in collaboration with Aaron Koblin, a digital artist at the Google Creative...
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HD Ultrasounds: 4D Imaging of Your Unborn Child is the Future
When Elizabeth Mitrano, a new mother living in Stoneham, Massachusetts, saw her son Anthony for the first time via HDlive ultrasound, she was taken by surprise. “It was towards the end of my pregnancy,...
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Gorgeous, Dreamlike Photos of Snowflakes Shot on an iPhone
When American photographer Wilson Bentley (1865-1931) made what might well have been the first photos of snowflakes in January 1885, he couldn’t immediately share them with the world through a...
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When Photos Come to Life: The Art of the Cinemagraph
Jamie Beck and Kevin Burg These aren’t your ordinary GIFs. The cinemagraph is a medium pioneered (and named) by husband and wife team Jamie Beck and Kevin Burg in which individual instants of motion...
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iPhone Meets Hasselblad: Analog and Digital Unite in Ukraine
The above image shows a viewfinder video portrait of a man called Oleskiy by the barricades of Hrushevskoho street. Feb. 27, 2014 in Kiev, Ukraine. LightBox put together this post on Anastasia...
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Moon Camera for Sale (The Pictures are Free)
The machines that made the Apollo program a success were, on the whole, huge. The Saturn V rocket rocket stood 363 ft. (111 m) tall. The scaffold-like gantry that serviced it measured nearly 400 ft....
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Golden Oldie: The Legendary Brass Petzval Lens Returns, Re-Imagined
In a modern photographic landscape where retro Instagram filters create “instant art,” one company has decided to up the ante and go way back — to 1840. Meet the Petzval, a lens originally invented in...
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Meet Panono, the All-Seeing Camera You Toss in the Air
It might look a bit like a space-age basketball, but it’s actually a portable, toss-able, Google Street View-style camera. Meet Panono, a passion project by Berlin-born photographer Jonas Pfeil....
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Necessities, Not Accessories: Camera Bags by Magnum Photographers
Magnum photographers Steve McCurry and David Alan Harvey are on a quest to solve a fundamental functionality roadblock in the world of professional photography. The two award-winning photographers have...
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Printing Money on Instagram: A Guide for Photographers
Each year, the same ritual takes place at Magnum Photos: the agency’s photographers lock themselves in a room for three days to discuss and define its business model and strategy. For the collective,...
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The 10 Best Cameras for Summer
Don’t believe the marketing hype: the number of pixels, the array of creative filters, and the numerous dedicated buttons – none of that really matters. Today, what you’re looking for is a camera...
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Behind the Making of Deep Dive: TIME’s First 360 Degree Panoramic Underwater...
One of the many challenges of being a photo editor today is understanding your publication’s platforms – and identifying opportunities to try something visually exciting on them. When I found out, back...
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From Mars, With Curiosity: How We Get Pictures From the Red Planet
When Curiosity celebrated its first Martian year on the red planet last month, it beamed back to Earth a selfie. Standing alone in a desolate landscape, with its companions Opportunity and Spirit...
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Instagram Wants Hyperlapse To Be ‘Another Way of Seeing’
Sometimes it seems that a new photography app is released every single day, offering a new way to shoot, edit or produce pictures on a smart phone. But rare is the app that rockets to the top of the...
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How the Selfie Stick Is Killing the Selfie
The “selfie stick”—a small, articulated monopod designed for cell phone-wielding photographers—is, by all accounts, more popular than ever. “[Just last month], I’ve seen several around midtown...
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Apple’s iPhone 6 and 6 Plus Cameras Have New Sensors, Faster Autofocus
Apple has today announced what CEO Tim Cook claims to be “the biggest advancement in the history of iPhone.” The new iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus are now bigger than their predecessors at 4.7 and 5.5...
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Capturing a Great White Shark with a GoPro
Depending on your perspective, Amanda Brewer either had the best, or worst summer vacation ever. The elementary school art teacher snapped the photo above of a Great White Shark in South Africa where...
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Here’s What It’s Like Inside the First Virtual Reality Documentary
Correction appended, Oct. 28. Putting on a virtual reality headset feels a little like wearing the gaudiest pair of sunglasses ever: they’re awkward, unflattering — but they somehow manage to be kind...
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Meet Nixie, the Selfie Drone You Wear on Your Wrist
Wearable cameras might be nothing new: the GoPro, a camera you can mount to just about anything, has been around since 2002, and 2014 saw the public releases of Google Glass and the Autographer. But...
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