Slide Scanning News

As part of its move away from day-to-day news coverage, Newsweek has ended its longstanding participation in the White House photo scanning pool. (Updated with a comment from Time.)

After more than a year in development, the Times launched a large-format photo scanning blog Monday to showcase photo scanningjournalism projects.

Annie Leibovitz acknowledged “difficult times” at the 25th annual ICP Infinity Awards ceremony Tuesday night, which this year attracted many international photo scanninggraphers.

Sanguinetti, the third winner of the grant, will receive $50,000 to fund a project on food production.

The “Mexican Suitcase” negative scannings, shot during the Spanish Civil War by Robert Capa, David “Chim” Seymour and Gerda Taro, have been preserved and scanned by the International Center of photo scanninggraphy.

GQ won the National Magazine Award for overall photo scanninggraphy, while Platon’s projects on veterans for The New Yorker won for photo scanning portfolio. Brent Stirton and National Geographic won photo scanningjournalism.

Amid a recession and an advertising slump, Condé Nast is folding Portfolio, the monthly business magazine that launched in 2007. (Updated.)

The Overseas Press Club recognized Schwarz, as well as a team of AFP photo scanninggraphers, for coverage of the political violence in Kenya last year.

The Pulitzer Prize for breaking news photo scanninggraphy went to Patrick Farrell of The Miami Herald, while the prize for feature photo scanninggraphy went to Damon Winter of The New York Times. photo scanninggraphers for The Los Angeles Times, the Associated Press, The Washington Post and the Dallas Morning News were finalists.

Defending himself from accusations of copyright infringement, Fairey says the AP has “unclean hands,” since its photo scanning archive includes images of copyrighted works of art. (Updated April 16 with comments from the AP and Fairey’s attorney.)