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According to Mercedes Benz: Symbiosis between sportiness, style, comfort and innovation — That is the new SL. This film lets you experience the roadster’s highlights. The famous abbreviation “SL” stands for super light. And can be taken literally on this model. Thanks to its aluminum structure it weighs up to 140 kg less than its predecessor. This provides more dynamic handling combined with lower fuel consumption — and absolute driving pleasure.

Is this the beginning of the end for analog photography? Kodak bankruptcy: Photographers mourn – Arts Post – The Washington Post.

Here’s an excerpt:

The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 34.000 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 13 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.

Click here to see the complete report.

Dutch Photographer and filmmaker Anton Corbijn received last night the “Prins Bernhard Culturefund prize” from Dutch Princess Maxima. U2 singer Bono and Coldplay singer Chris Martin attended the festivities with song and a poem for Anton.
Read the article in Dutch here.

Diana Walker was TIME’s White House photographer for 20 years, where she captured intimate moments with five Presidents. But she also captures a series of great photo’s from Steve Jobs who passed away yesterday.

Read more: http://lightbox.time.com/2011/10/06/in-a-private-light-diana-walkers-photos-of-steve-jobs/#ixzz1a6eCquI3

It’s an irony of the Digital Age that, at a time when photography is more popular than ever, it’s often difficult to find anyone who can explain why certain pictures and photographers are, quite simply, great. LIFE.com offers insights from professional shooters, passionate aficionados, and LIFE editors on what, exactly, makes photos memorable and moving, and why particular photographers, past and present, really matter — and always will. Read it on Life.com

A great set of black and white photo’s of steelworkers reaching the heights of New York City.

I am looking forward to his biography released in November.

photo: Dutch Photo Museum

Dutch photographer Charles Breijer passed away this morning (The Hague on November 26, 1914 – Hilversum, 18 August 2011). Breijer was especially known for his photographs of the armed resistance, he made as part of the so called Submerged camera, a group of Amsterdam photographers who captured the last year of the German occupation. From 1947 to 1953 as a filmmaker Charles Breijer lived in Indonesia, and he witnessed the decolonization and development of the young republic. In addition, he used his camera primarily for taking personal shots. Back in The Netherlands Breijer worked from 1954 until his retirement in 1979 as a filmmaker for Multi Film. His photo library is managed by the Dutch Photo Museum.

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Happy Anniversary!

photo: Pedro Meyer

Do you want to view some examples of beautiful black and white Photo’s? A post on Smashing Magazine last june 2011 is an exception to the normal posts from the Monday Inspiration series because they are pretty colorful and eye-catching posts as they say. Compared to colorful designs where catchy colors help the design to stand out, in black-and-white the ability to stand out depends only on its ability to communicate rather than on its appealing visual presentation. Indeed, beautiful black and white photography doesn’t attract with its play of colors. Here close attention to composition, lighting, perspective and the context it is shot in are important. And we all know that’s true. Beautiful Black and White Photography can be seen through Smashing Magazine.

Het gaat om foto’s die de Hongaars-Amerikaanse oorlogsfotograaf Robert Capa (1913-1954) in 1938 in China maakte. De fotograaf maakte deze reis samen met de Nederlandse filmmaker Joris Ivens en cameraman John Fernhout.