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R.I.P. Lina Wertmüller: She not only made her way in a profession dominated by men, she mordantly captured the postwar Italian soul in her movies. Wertmüller, who died at age 93, was the first woman to be nominated for an Academy Award as best director. Wertmüller also was nominated for best original screenplay and best foreign language film for 1975’s Seven Beauties, which the Guardian called an absurdist antiwar satire.
World’s tiniest camera: Researchers at Princeton University and the University of Washington have developed a camera that’s the size of a grain of salt. Amazingly, it can take clear, high-res, full-color shots at the level of your smartphone, Vice reports. Researchers envision these types of cameras being used in procedures like endoscopies or other minimally invasive surgeries.
The ‘clearest ever’ photo of the sun? Astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy says he’s captured it. He’s put together a 300-metapixel image of the sun by combining 150,000 individual impressively detailed images from his backyard photos. He had a little help from a modified telescope. See his shots on PetaPixel.
Preserving a legacy: Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Studio Museum in Harlem will jointly own 20,000 prints and 30,000 negatives taken by Harlem Renaissance photographer James Van Der Zee. Van Der Zee, who died in 1983, commemorated milestones of Black life in New York’s Harlem: first communion, military service, marriages, open-casket funerals. Decades later, he photographed Jean Michel Basquiat and Muhammad Ali. Learn more from Hyperallergic.
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