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John W. tells me about visiting LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art) recently where he saw and highly recommends the Vanity Fair Portraits: Photographs 1913–2008exhibition. Through March 1, 2009. Look at the photographers represented: Cecil Beaton, Harry Benson, Julian Broad, Imogen Cunningham, Annie Leibovitz, Man Ray, Mary Ellen Mark, Steven Meisel, Helmut Newton, Herb Ritts, Edward Steichen, Mario Testino, and Bruce Weber. Quite a list. Stop by if you are in L.A. in the next three months.

Just as I awoke this morning, NPR Radio was presenting an interview with Reza Deghati, exiled Iranian photojournalist. You can hear the interview, view a gallery of his work and learn about his latest book: Reza War and Peace: A Photographer’s Journey at this NPR page.

Left is a photo by Gerard Rancinan of Rez and his wife, Rachel.

About the time I was getting into photography, one of its leading lights was Paul Caponigro. In 1967, he captured an image of running white deer in Ireland, an image that has gone on to be one of his signature pieces. He and his son, John Paul — widely-known in this era as an expert digital craftsman and teacher — have collaborated on a new digital print of Paul’s timeless image. You can find out more about it here. (Yes, I would buy a print for myself if I had the budget for it; no, I have nothing to personally gain by pointing you to this thing.)