seeing & being seen

The ultimate in spy cameras, for the discerning host: Steve Irvine’s ceramic pinhole cameras.

Worried about your digital photographs being used by someone else? Canon has apparently just filed for an iris registration patent, whereby your images would be watermarked based on your very own photographic eye.

Another object of the present invention is to provide an imaging apparatus that makes it possible to protect the copyright of photographic images by reliably acquiring biological information of a photographer for the purpose of personal authentication and writing this photographer information to the image of a subject without affecting processing, and in a manner transparent to operation, at the time of photography.

Some comments here about some of the obvious concerns and issues.

The final demise of Polaroid film, announced today. Below, some of the sneaky ways Polaroids have insinuated themselves into my work, over the years.

A blog dedicated to snarky comments serious research into the various Mustaches of the Nineteenth Century… inadvertently also quite a showcase of 19th century photographic portraiture.