The sad news came through today that Roy DeCarava has passed away. Roy died of natural causes in Manhattan on Tuesday at the age of 89.

The Library of Congress has done a terrific job at creating an online source for historic photography. Among their recent claims to fame are the color images of a turn of the century Russian photographer who documented his country just before the 1918 revolution.

 After Microsoft's Photoshop snafu this week, everyone is abuzz about altered images. The New York Times took a look at a bunch of photos throughout history that have had severe editing done, and lets just say there are a lot more than you'd think.

I always knew John Quincy Adams was one of the cool presidents. How could you not be if your Dad was a founding father and the sixth president. Apparently his journal entries are all under 140 characters in length.. making him one of the very first Tweeters.

Between Global Warming and spiking oil prices, we are surrounded by reminders of the waning resources on Earth. For many fishermen along the East Coast, vanishing fisheries have been a reality for quite some time. Starting in 1979, Barbara Mensch documented the death of the Fulton Fish Market in Brooklyn with her Rolleiflex camera. Now her work is being used to show the impact unsustainable fishing can have on the people that rely on it.