January 20, 2009

This week on VanityFair.com, I write about Photosynth, from Microsoft, which will electronically stitch together digital images shot by thousands of attendees at today’s Presidential Inaugural, creating a virtual 3-D panorama of the historic instant.

...And I provide a thumbnail history of the best documentary photographs of Barack Obama.

…In case you missed it: Michael Moore has been threatened with a lawsuit, accused of having “appropriated” photographer Michael Yon’s work and using it online in what Yon feels is a misleading manner.

…Dramatic videotape on The New York Times Website shows reveals the story of a Gaza-based Palestinian doctor -- a longtime advocate for establishing closer ties between Israelis and Palestinians -- who lost three of his eight daughters to Israeli bombs.

…Finally, as Brian Ross reports on ABC News, why does bin Laden release only audiotape, not videotape? Does this imply that he is in failing health, as his voice suggests?