NEW DELHI: Alaska health officials have confirmed the state’s first fatal case of Alaskapox, a recently discovered viral disease. The victim, an elderly immunocompromised man from the Kenai Peninsula south of Anchorage, succumbed to the illness while undergoing treatment in late January.The Alaska Department of Public Health announced on Friday that the person who succumbed … Read more
The very first prototype of Leica’s earliest experimentation with die-casting a camera is coming to auction this year with the expectation that collectors will be clamoring to add it to their collection. Die casting is the process of forcing liquid hot metal into a mold under high pressure. That mold is made out of two … Read more
The camera that captured the album cover for Michael Jackson’s Thriller — what is arguably one of the most iconic album covers of the last century — along with a host of test images from the shoot are coming to auction this month. In 1982, photographer Dan Zimmerman used a Hasselblad 500 ELX to capture … Read more