By the end of the year, one of the most potent and revolutionary tools for capturing these little instant histories will be rendered obsolete: In February, Polaroid announced that it would pretty much stop making its instant film.

A judge on Friday awarded US$4,510 in damages to a photographer, who worried he would be killed when Zsa Zsa Gabor's husband punched him in the face on a Beverly Hills street.

Duane Michals, born February 18, 1932 in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, is a poet, philosopher, and a photographer. He became interested in photography when he was 14 and was taking watercolor classes at Carnegie Institute...