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WASHINGTON (WV News) — Rebecca McPhail, president of the West Virginia Manufacturers Association, will join the American Chemistry Council as its new vice president of State Affairs and Political Mobilization,

Woody Guthrie recorded his Dust Bowl Ballads album in Camden. More than 80 years later, its songs could not be more relevant to today.

Eolake Stobblehouse Long-long-longtime friend o TOP Eolake Stobblehouse has died. A Dane who was born Frants Nielsen—"a character I vaguely remember," he said of that name—he died at his home in Manchester, England, of natural causes and apparently without pain...

There is a new pretender, in the old sense of the word: "a claimant to a throne who is held to have no just title." You can read about the new second-gen Pixii from Pixii here, and Hamish Gills review...

Who really climbed Everest first? Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary did it in 1953, but George Mallory (right) and Andrew "Sandy" Irvine perished in an attempt in 1924. The key question is, did they die on the way up or...

- "It is not about having the best camera, it is about having the camera which you make the most photos with." —Eric Kim - (posted by) Mike Book of Interest: Hank ONeal, Ed., A Vision Shared: A Portrait of...

On Wednesday, I was really just asking about reissues—what old camera do you wish you could buy new (if any, in Kens case). I was surprised at how many commenters answered with some version of "this film camera, only digital."...

Guest post by Keith F. Davis Jerry Uelsmann (right) was a dear friend. I had him give a talk in a symposium I put together in 1995 and he was just great—funny, insightful, and inspiring. We were friends from that...

Thomas Walsh asked: I always enjoy the Book o the Week as well as the links to books by the photographers that you write about. I had no knowledge of Jerry Uelsmann and found his work interesting. I also enjoyed...

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