Los Angeles-based and well known celebrity photographer Frank Ockenfels 3 has created a series of print, online and outdoor ads for the fifth season premier of AMC's Mad Men. Working with AMC and The Refinery's Brad Hochberg, Ockenfels photographed all of the show's leads in character...

In an effort to document the people behind many of world's iconic photographs from the past century, San Diego-based photographer Tim Mataoni has released "Behind Photographs: Archiving Photographic Legends." The 150-page book includes a series of 20x24-inch Polaroid portraits of photographic legends like Steve McCurry, Joyce Tenneson and Arthur Levine. According to Mantoani... —

Seattle photographer Charles Krebs won first place in the 2011 Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition, the world's foremost forum for showcasing microscope photos and movies of life science subjects. His winning image enlarges the amazing movements of a rotifer, a tiny underwater creature that sweep at lightning speed to move food into its mouth. Krebs used a special flash to freeze the cilia's...

Bolstered with $20,000 in contributions, Seattle-based documentarians Benjamin Drummond and Sara Joy Steele have begun work on a new series focusing on the Pacific Northwest. One of the grants came from the Kongsgaard-Goldman Foundation for $8,000 and the other is from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund for $12,000. Their previous work includes a...

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...