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Jun 8, 2017 · Philippe Kahn took the first ever cell phone picture of his then-newborn daughter Sophie in Santa Cruz County. Kahn had a Casio QV-10, the first consumer-grade digital camera with an LCD display that, he said, “made pixelated but nice 320 by 240 pictures.”. He also had a Motorola StarTAC “flip” phone, so during Sonia’s 18 hours of ...
Jun 7, 2017 · This fascination with the familiar isn’t a new phenomenon, says Phillip Prodger, head of photographs at the National Portrait Gallery and a former judge of the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize. “We live in a world of the free exchange of imagery and social media and perhaps the photographs that once were considered more private aren’t considered so private anymore. I think ...
- The First ‘Camera Phone’ Photograph
- One of The Most Influential Photos of All Time
- A Photo Sharing Pioneer
The very first camera phone photo in history was captured and sent back on June 11th, 1997 by an entrepreneur named Philippe Kahn. On that date, Khan captured a photo of his newborn daughter with his digital camera in a maternity ward at Sutter Maternity Center in Santa Cruz, California. Since “camera phones” didn’t exist at that time, Kahn actuall...
In 2016, Time Magazine named Kahn’s seminal camera phone photo one of the 100 most influential photos of all time. In 2017, the marketing studio Conscious Minds released a heartwarming 4-minute short film recreating the story of Kahn’s now-famous photo. In the film, Kahn tells the story of how he hacked together a mess of wires, phones, laptops, an...
At the time of his famous first photo, Khan had been working for nearly a year on Picture Mail, a web server-based system for sharing photos online. Khan says his goal had been to create a 21st-century version of the Polaroid instant camera, except the instant photos would be shared on the Web instead of through physical prints. Khan integrated a m...
Mini Bio (1) Horst Fehlhaber was born on September 10, 1919 in Germany. He was a cinematographer, known for Schön ist die Welt (1957), Flucht in die Tropennacht (1957) and The Bridge (1959). He was previously married to Magda Schneider. He died on May 14, 2010 in Germany.
Having photographed hundreds of babies in her career now, Geddes has been revisiting some of her most cherished and iconic photos, and just published a collection of about 200 in a new book called ...
Feb 11, 2020 · Lori Martinez Photography. Lori Martinez, a birth photographer near Albuquerque, New Mexico, says she captured her award-winning image during a home birth where mom Ashley Shaffer's 5-year-old ...
Horst Fehlhaber. Camera and Electrical Department: Schön ist die Welt. Horst Fehlhaber was born on 10 September 1919 in Germany. He was a cinematographer, known for Schön ist die Welt (1957), The Miracle of Father Malachia (1961) and Flucht in die Tropennacht (1957).
