Photography news you may have missed - Dec'08

[drg]

Famed model Bettie Page, pin-up queen, and yes she appeared in Playboy, died December 12, 2008 at age 85 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

Betty Page story - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7778963.stm

Dorothea Lange in early 1936 made a photograph of a migrant worker in the Dustbowl while working for one of the New Deal agencies that became an icon of American B/W photography. The Great Depression era photo know usually as 'Migrant Mother' generated this recent story about the effect it had on the children and their future.

Lange photo story - http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/12/02...oto/index.html

And Finally, Polaroid has filed for bankruptcy again. This time it is being reported from malfeasance or the like from some investor/owner/financier of the current Company. No link, as a quick Internet (Google, Yahoo etc) search for Polaroid Bankruptcy should bring several even more recent stories.

[Frog]

I had heard about Betty Page but hadn't seen the Lange photo story.

Did you know you can download uncompressed tiffs of Migrant Mother?
Thanks for sharing.

[Speed]

That's sad news about Bettie Page.

She was an American icon.