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Two Western Photojournalists Killed in Libya

MISRATA, Libya -- Two Western photojournalists, including an Oscar-nominated film director, were killed Wednesday in the besieged city of Misrata while covering battles between rebels and Libyan government forces. Two others working alongside them were wounded. British-born Tim Hetherington, co-director of the documentary...

NYC Photo Project Creates a Visual Census [VIDEO]

There's something about the guy leaning on a post and checking his phone that catches Brandon Stanton's eye. So he stops, asks if he can take a photo, clicks and continues on his way. He's done that more than 17,000 times and is still clicking.

Cops: Man Stocked Walmart Shelves With Photos of Himself in Drag

You can find almost anything on the shelves at Walmart -- sometimes even obscene photographs of a 44-year-old man in drag. Police in Fremont, Ohio, say Rodney Kunkel stocked the shelves at Walmart with graphic photographs showing himself in black nylons, heels and pink lingerie with his genitals exposed. Kunkel allegedly...

NYU Prof's Body Rejects Camera That Was Surgically Implanted in His Head

Plenty of people react badly to having a camera on them -- perhaps none more so than Wafaa Bilal. The New York University photography professor was forced to remove a computer webcam that had been surgically implanted in his head because his body rejected the foreign object. Doctors removed the camera from Bilal's head...

5 Questions About the Air Force's Gorgon Stare Drone

The military is expected soon to send a new sensor system on its Reaper unmanned aircraft flying over Afghanistan that can keep watch over entire cities. The Air Force has even named the new "all seeing" system Gorgon Stare, after the mythological creature that could turn people into stone with her stare. But in reality,...

Background on photography

Photography is the art, science and practice of creating durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, either electronically by means of an image sensor or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film.

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