Willy Ronis, one of France’s great photographers, dies at 99

PARIS — Willy Ronis, the last of France’s postwar greats of photography who captured the essence of Paris in black and white scenes of everyday life, died Saturday. He was 99.

Photographer Annie Leibovitz gets extension on $24M loan, retains copyright to life’s work

NEW YORK — Photographer Annie Leibovitz has won an extension on a $24 million loan in a financial dispute that threatened her rights to her famous images.

Spokesman: Photographer Annie Leibovitz, lender working to resolve loan as deadline passes

NEW YORK — Celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz was continuing to try to resolve matters with her lender, her spokesman said Wednesday, a day after the deadline passed for her to repay a $24 million loan or lose the rights to her life’s work.

Deadline for celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz to repay $24 million loan passes

NEW YORK — The deadline for celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz to repay a $24 million loan passed Tuesday night without word from either involved party.

Celeb photographer Annie Leibovitz’s $24M loan repayment due; risks losing copyright to images

NEW YORK — Celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz risks losing the copyright to her images — and her entire life’s work — if she doesn’t pay back a $24 million loan that is now due.

Morenatti among 9 winners of AP’s 2009 Gramling Awards for staff excellence

NEW YORK — Emilio Morenatti, the award-winning photographer who was wounded last month in a bombing in Afghanistan, is among nine Associated Press staff members selected as winners of the 2009 Oliver S. Gramling Awards for excellence.

Picture This: Detroit Institute of Arts shows off collection of rare, early photos in exhibit

DETROIT — Sir John Herschel made important contributions to the nascent field of photography more than a century and a half ago, inventing a chemical process that allowed an image to be fixed onto photosensitive paper.

Nude model briefly adds self to permanent collection at The Met museum in NYC for photo shoot

NEW YORK — It seems the only nudes allowed at New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art are the ones in the collection.

Iran says 3 Americans arrested for illegal entry, claims case being used for propaganda

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran has arrested three Americans who strayed across the border from Iraq for illegally entering the country and a lawmaker says authorities are deciding whether they will be accused of spying.

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Leaf-peeping in Iowa: Mississippi River, bridges of Madison County

Julius Shulman, who elevated architectural photographs into fine art, dies in LA at age 98

LOS ANGELES — Photographer Julius Shulman, who turned photos of Modernist buildings into works of art, has died, colleagues said Thursday. He was 98.

Julius Shulman, who elevated architectural photographs into fine art, dies at age 98

LOS ANGELES — Colleagues say famed architectural photographer Julius Shulman has died at his Los Angeles home. He was 98.

Florida tour finds mix of fun, oddities and pop culture history among its thousands of bars

MIAMI — Where else but Florida could a place like Jimbo’s exist?

Sorry, Paul Simon, Kodak’s taking your Kodachrome away, retiring the color film after 74 years

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Sorry, Paul Simon, Kodak is taking your Kodachrome away.

North Carolina college student’s traffic barrel street art sparks arrest, public support

RALEIGH, N.C. — When Joseph Carnevale chopped up three stolen orange and white traffic barrels from a construction site to create a massive sculpture of a roadside monster thumbing a ride, the North Carolina college student said he saw it as a form of street art.

Imagine Lennon in his PJs: Woodstock site exhibit shows images from the John & Yoko bed-in

BETHEL, N.Y. — John and Yoko hung out in their pajamas for eight days during their “bed-in” at a Montreal hotel in 1969. Reclining on a king-size bed, the famous Beatle and his new wife read Lao Tzu, snuggled and recorded the anthem “Give Peace a Chance.”

New Smithsonian exhibit shows the complex variety, life of ants

WASHINGTON — Running a museum is no picnic, but the Smithsonian is attracting ants anyway.

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