A print of Andreas Gursky's "Rhein II" broke records with its $4.33 million price tag at a Chrtitie's auction this past November, making it the most expensive photo ever sold. Gursky's had previously claimed the title of highest-priced photo with his diptych, "99 Cent Store"—purchased for $3.35 million in 2006. For a brief six months, Gursky lost his place when Cindy Sherman's self portrait, sold for $3.89 million in May 2011...

It may be no $4.33 million price tag like Andreas Gursky's latest auction item, but Christie's also procured a record price for Henri Cartier-Bresson prints at $590,455 at their auction in November. The print, a 1946 shot of Derrière la Gare Saint-Lazare, Paris in 1932, shows a well-known image of a man jumping over a puddle. Other notable items included a collection of 51 Irving Penn prints that generated $2.85 million. The highest sale at the auction was $492,273, paid for Penn's "Woman in Moroccan Palace" from 1951...

The estate of rock 'n roll photographer Jim Marshall has sued fashion designer John Varvatos for using photos of celebrity musicians without permission in store displays. Well-known for his rock-n-roll-inspired designs, Varvatos has featured many musicians in his designs and displays through the years, including Green Day, Iggy Pop, Alice Cooper and Velvet Revolver. The images in....

In order to pull itself out of Chapter 11 bankruptcy, the Shaw Family Archives (SFA) has agreed to a 5-year, $3 million licensing deal estate of Marilyn Monroe. Under the agreement, the Monroe estate would be able to commercially license hundreds of Monroe images shot by the late photographer Sam Shaw, as well as other photos from Shaw's collection including John Wayne, Sophia Loren, Marlon Brando and Audrey Hepburn. The Shaw estate, however, would retain the right to...

The New York Times has launched a Tumblr blog titled "The Lively Morgue", an auxiliary site meant to showcase photographs from its archives. According to the Times, images will pull from a repository of 5 to 6 million prints and 300,000 negatives dating back to 1896, when it first published an illustrated magazine. The archives also include 13,500 DVDs. The site also features the notations on the back of the image, which include details about when and how often a photo was used...

Femtophotography. Have you heard that photog term before? Most likely not, as it is a brand new tool which can take a picture from around the corner — literally. Using lasers pulses and computational algorithms, these femtophotography cameras can spot a hidden image and capture them in 3D. Currently, the images aren't crystal clear (or even quite like a photo yet), they are recognizable shapes. Kind of like a visual sonar, these bursts of light bounce off walls and floors to find the hidden object and...

Framed as a means to prevent PETA and other animal rights groups from making distorted images of animal farms and operations, a Utah state lawmaker has introduced a bill that would make it a crime to photograph or videotape agricultural operations without permission from the owners. If the bill, Utah House Bill 187, passes, it...

It seems that "lost" photographs have been making quite a reappearance these days. In February, a series of Robert Frank images, take in 1958 as part of commission from The New York Times, were discovered by the family of Louis Silverstein, a longtime art director at the Times. Following the debut of the Times' big announcement about their photo archive blog, "The Lively Morgue," the photographs are also featured on the publications photo news blog, "Lens."...

After two years of denying wrongdoing, Shepard Fairey, the artist who made the iconic "Hope" Obama campaign posters, has plead guilty to a federal criminal charge for destroying documents and falsifying evidence in his lawsuit with the Associated press.According to the court records, Fairey provided false documents during the litigation and asked one of his employees to mislead investigators.

Originally following the lawsuit, Fairey claimed that fair use laws protected his posters and that he had not infringed upon a 2008 image taken by AP photographer Mannie Garcia.

Los Angeles-based photographer Michael D. Jones has filed a lawsuit against music producer Quincy Jones (no relation) for using one of the photographer's portraits without permission. The photograph in question, an image Quincy Jones and other musicians taken at a recording session in 1995, was allegedly used for ads and packaging materials for a signature line of Harman headphones. As part of his lawsuit, Jones has said that he was not asked to sign a contract when taking the photos, but at one time, gave Quincy Jones several 8x10 prints of his images...