Denver: One of the most iconic photographs taken of a 19th-century Wild West outlaw, that of legendary gunslinger Billy the Kid, is up for auction on Saturday, when it is expected to sell for at least $ 300,000. The credit card-sized tintype, or ferrotype, of an armed Billy the Kid wearing a tall black hat cocked on his head, is the only authenticated photo of the infamous gunman, according to...
11:52 AM, Jun 26, 2011
New York: A tearful US Congressman Anthony Weiner on Monday admitted sending a lewd photo of his underwear-clad crotch to a young woman over Twitter and then lying repeatedly to protect himself. In a flash of defiance, Weiner refused to resign even as Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi called for a House ethics investigation into whether he broke the rules. The extraordinary confession at a packed Manhattan news conference was a...
12:44 PM, Jun 07, 2011
New Delhi: Twitter has announced a new photo and video search feature. But unlike traditional search engine results it doesn't display the image and video results upfront but as content related to results from a search query. The related media for search results on Twitter will not be displayed by default and the user has the option to view the related photo and video content or not. The related top...
01:14 AM, Jun 02, 2011
Rochester: At Image City Photography Gallery, Gary Thompson delights in pointing out qualities of light, contrast and clarity in one of his best-selling prints - a winter-sunset view of Yosemite National Park's El Capitan peak shot with a hefty Pentax film camera he bought in 1999 for $1,700. His wife, Phyllis, a latecomer to fine-art photography after they retired from teaching in the 1990s, favours a Hasselblad X-Pan for panoramic...
01:09 PM, May 31, 2011
Rio de Janeiro: Hollywood actor Antonio Banderas auctioned off six photographs from his collection titled "Secretos sobre negro" in a bid to collect fund for a non-governmental organisation supporting disabled people in Brazil. "I've been (clicking) photos for many years, but without publishing them, and now they offered me the chance to start this charity project," Banderas said. The auction took place in Rio's City Palace, where some 200 guests...
10:58 AM, May 26, 2011
West Palm Beach: Groggy from a late night watching the Yankees, frigid from a chilled airplane cabin, Stefanie Gordon stirred to action after the pilot's announcement. Lifting her iPhone to the plane's window, she captured an otherworldly image that rocketed around the globe as fast as her subject: Space shuttle Endeavour soaring from a bank of clouds, its towering plume of white smoke lighting the azure sky. She had never...
11:48 AM, May 20, 2011
It is a very fun photoshoot, it is very dreamy and we are shooting different looking said Bollywood actress Sonakshi. ...
02:06 PM, May 19, 2011
Washington/Abbottabad: President Barack Obama decided on Wednesday not to release photographs of slain al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden's body, saying they could incite violence and be used by militants as a propaganda tool. Attorney General Eric Holder, seeking to head off suggestions that killing bin Laden was illegal, said the US commandos who raided his Pakistani hide-out on Monday had carried out a justifiable act of national self-defense. In ...
08:53 AM, May 05, 2011
Islamabad: Photographs acquired by Reuters and taken about an hour after the US assault on Osama bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad in Pakistan show three dead men lying in pools of blood, but no weapons. The photos taken by a Pakistani security official who entered the compound after the early morning raid on Monday, show two men dressed in traditional Pakistani garb and one in a t-shirt, with blood streaming...
07:47 AM, May 05, 2011
Islamabad: Photographs acquired by Reuters and taken about an hour after the US assault on Osama bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad in Pakistan show three dead men lying in pools of blood, but no weapons. The photos taken by a Pakistani security official who entered the compound after the early morning raid on Monday, show two men dressed in traditional Pakistani garb and one in a t-shirt, with blood streaming...
07:47 AM, May 05, 2011
