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Tuesday, January 6, 2009

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Today’s Feature: “2008 Holiday Survival Guide for Slackers” by Matthew Baldwin
Latest in Digest: Annie Leibovitz at Work

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Camera Obscura

The camera obscura seems little short of miraculous, even after the optical rationale has been explained... That Abelardo Morell was able to photograph the thing in action, in effect producing photographs of a photographic process, and that he has done so with such lapidar and transformative eloquence, is breathtaking.
—Luc Sante, from his introduction to Camera Obscura

From photographer Abelardo Morell, a gallery of hauntingly beautiful pictures excerpted from his new book, Camera Obscura, where we discover how much of the world can fit through a pinhole.

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TODAY’S FEATURE

2008 Holiday Survival Guide for Slackers

It’s a holiday tradition: You’re giftless mere hours until Christmas, and it’s printouts and January ETAs for the unlucky few on your list. MATTHEW BALDWIN has ideas for the eternally belated.

TOSSED

The Ghosts of Christmases Just Past

Geoff Badner photographs the trees that were.

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Annie Leibovitz at Work

A new opus from the best-known American photographer inter-splices her images with her own observations and mild revelations from her splendid career.