Brehme, a German, arrived in Mexico in 1906, only to leave two years later for Germany, where he married. He returned in 1908 and within a few years had established a studio in Mexico City.Brehme considered photography an art — not a universally accepted notion at the time. And he saw his work in Mexico as celebrating that nation’s “natural beauty, its indigenous heritage, and its pyramids and archaeological artifacts,” Frost writes.

via How a photographer helped shape the image of Mexico.

Most cameras have a range of remote control capabilities that we don’t even realize exist. If you’ve ever wanted to take a nice self-portrait, dive into time-lapse photography, or just get a different perspective on your images, you can do all of it with a variety of wired and wireless options. Here’s how you can control your camera remotely to expand your photographic tool set without spending a bunch of money on accessories you don’t need.

via How to Remotely Control Your Digital Camera to Take Better Photos, Create Awesome Timelapse Videos, and More.

I’ll come right out and say it: I’m not a big fan of Instagram. And no, it’s not because iOS users have had their underpants in a wad over the Android release, but because for me, it really doesn’t live up to the hype. Here’s why, and more importantly, here are some just-as-good alternatives for Android users and some for iOS users too! who want to take and share photos with or without those filters that make a 5-megapixel cell phone camera look like a 70s Polaroid.

via Don’t Bother with Instagram; Here are Five Better Alternatives for Android.

Beyond the log-in screen of Ramona Fricosu’s laptop computer lies what federal prosecutors say could be the key evidence in the bank-fraud case against her.

There’s only one problem: Prosecutors don’t know her password.

via Password case reframes Fifth Amendment rights in context of digital world – The Denver Post.

Two bills now pending in Congress—the PROTECT IP Act of 2011 Protect IP in the Senate and the Stop Online Piracy Act SOPA in the House—represent the latest legislative attempts to address a serious global problem: large-scale online copyright and trademark infringement. Although the bills differ in certain respects, they share an underlying approach and an enforcement philosophy that pose grave constitutional problems and that could have potentially disastrous consequences for the stability and security of the Internet’s addressing system, for the principle of interconnectivity that has helped drive the Internet’s extraordinary growth, and for free expression.

via Don’t Break the Internet – Stanford Law Review.

Now scientists at M.I.T.’s Media Lab are using an ultrafast imaging system to capture light itself as it passes through liquids and objects, in effect snapping a picture in less than two-trillionths of a second.

via Speed of Light Lingers in Face of M.I.T. Media Lab Camera – NYTimes.com.

Check out these amazing before-and-after images. Hany Farid of Dartmouth has developed an algorithm that enables him to un-re-touch de-touch? photoshopped images to amazing effect

via Reality in the Age of Photoshop | Transparency Revolution.

A chance find has rescued the work of the camera-toting baby sitter, and gallery owners are taking notice

via Vivian Maier: The Unheralded Street Photographer | Photos | Smithsonian Magazine.

A journalism professor from Chicago says he was video recording police making an arrest Saturday night when the cops deleted his footage and threatened him with arrest.

via Chicago Police Delete Journalism Professor’s Video Footage Of Arrest | Pixiq.

As the technology that powers smartphone cameras has steadily improved, the point-and-shoot has become an endangered species. Taking pictures with a smartphone has become so popular, it even has its own name: iPhoneography, or smartphoneography for those with non-Apple mobile phones.

via Home & Garden | Add-ons turn smartphone into semi-pro camera | Seattle Times Newspaper.