Photography news at Art News Blog is a listing of all the posts that have discussed the art of photography, photo exhibitions, and photographer news.

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• World's Largest Photo - "The Great Picture" is the world's largest photograph taken with the biggest camera in the world. I love the fact that my little digital camera with 7 mega pixels fits in my pocket and can be taken anywhere, but I don't think a giant jet air craft hangar sized camera will ever be very popular!
• Art & Perception + Painting from Photographs - I reposted an old post asking the question; Is it OK to use photographs for painting? It's something most painters, critics, and collectors seem to have an opinion on, so I thought it would be interesting to see what others think about it.
• Free Art Nudes if you Pose Nude - The artist "Johnny Naked" has a project where you can take home a piece of art for free if you agree to pose nude for him.
• The New Les Demoiselles d'Avignon - The American photographer Luis Gispert has reinterpreted Pablo Picasso's ground breaking work, the Les Demoiselles d'Avignon.
• Fair Use or Copyright Infringement - Lile from Art.net has written about an artist/photographer friend that went to court over a copyright infringement and was told it was a case of "Fair Use".
• Painting from Photographs Update - The recent post about painting from photographs created some friendly debate. Some believe it is fine to use photographs as they're just another useful tool for the artist, while others believe it's almost cheating, or certainly taking a shortcut.
• Painting from Photographs - The ARTnews magazine has asked a question that has been around for a while now.. "Why should a painting based on a photograph be considered a less legitimate work of art than one painted from observation or one that is simply abstract?"
• Photography Auction Results! - Recent photography auctions by Chris-tobys have achieved record prices. At Sotheby's a photograph by Edward Weston, titled the Breast reached an amazing $822,400 in New York, against an estimate of $300,000 to $400,000. Other impressive prices reached where from Dorethea Lange's "White Angel Breadline" which made $822,400, Richard Avedon's "The Beatles, London, England" made $464,000 at Christies, and Robert Mapplethorpe's "American Flag" made $352,000.
  

Posts that have mentioned Photography and taking photos..

• Spencer Tunick on a Swiss glacier - Greenpeace and the New York flesh architect Spencer Tunick are encouraging volunteers to get naked on a Swiss glacier next month. Greenpeace Switzerland has a sign up page here for those that are interested.
• Photographer Spencer Tunick in Mexico City - The New York photographer Spencer Tunick recently broke his own record when he encouraged 17,000 Mexicans to take their clothes off and pose for him.
• Dan Bodner Paintings from Photographs - After the discussion on painting from photographs, Karl Zipser has gone out and almost been converted into a photograph using artist ;-)
• Spencer Tunick Flesh Architecture - Not everyone knows his name, but I'm sure most people know the work of Spencer Tunick. He's the guy that gets thousands of people all around the world to take their clothes off in public places and pose for him, while he attempts to create his "flesh architecture".
• Photoshop Art Fakes - Over at Worth1000.com there's a competition to make famous works of art look fake. The idea is to use Photoshop to manipulate paintings from any period by changing or adding details to the work.
• Spencer Tunick in Venezuela - The American photographer Spencer Tunick managed to get more than 1500 people in Caracas, Venezuela to shed their clothes and pose for him in his latest installation of flesh.
• Spencer Tunick in France - New York photography Spencer Tunick had the French naked with their legs in the air last week. Fifteen hundred French got their threads off in the French town of Lyon to participate in Spencer Tunick's latest nude fest.
• Spencer Tunick Nudes in Belgium - Nearly 2000 people put on their birthday suits in near freezing weather recently in Bruges, Belgium for the photographer Spencer Tunick. An estimated 1950 people braved the cold for the sake of art and spread themselves over the ancient cobblestones of the Belgian city, all completely naked.
• Putting your art Online - Here's an article over at Linkism.com discussing a couple reasons why and how to put your art online.. (I think most artists have already done that, right?)