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The University of Pittsburgh's Daily Student Newspaper

The Pitt News
The University of Pittsburgh's Daily Student Newspaper

The Pitt News
Students sort through cyanotypes at the Beyond Blue: Toning Cyanotypes workshop in Hillman Library on Wednesday, March 19.

The art of cyanotypes revamped with the Text & conText Lab

By Wendy Moore, Staff Writer • March 23, 2025

Tables were lined with excited faces, art supplies and eye-catching bright blue papers during the Center for Creativity’s "Beyond Blue: Toning Cyanotypes" workshop. Hillman Library's Text & conText...

Outside the Bankrupt Bodega on Main Street

Pitt alum fosters photography community through small business Bankrupt Bodega

By Trinity Foster, Staff Writer • March 12, 2023
Pat Bruener, a Pitt alum, founded Bankrupt Bodega in 2018, printing his original photographs onto clothing. Then, in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, he decided to add a film element to the brand and relocated to a storefront on Main Street in Bloomfield.
Opinion | Digital cameras are having a comeback –– don’t miss it

Opinion | Digital cameras are having a comeback –– don’t miss it

By Juliana Morello, Staff Columnist • December 6, 2022
Digital cameras are having a comeback and you should join in on the fun.
Ivette Spradlin, a professor of photography at Pitt and Carnegie Mellon University, has spent her quarantine taking portraits of Pittsburgers outside their family homes.

Pitt professor captures pandemic through a camera lens

By Diana Velasquez, Senior Staff Writer • June 2, 2020
Ivette Spradlin’s Instagram page is filled to the brim with images of people in masks posed in front of colorful and creative-looking homes, their gaze fixed on the photographer who takes their picture from at least 6 feet away.
Untitled Pittsburgh 1950 © Elliott Erwitt Courtesy: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh

Photographer Elliott Erwitt publishes forgotten Pittsburgh photos

By John Hamilton / Editor-in-Chief • August 21, 2017

Elliott Erwitt left his rented room at the downtown Pittsburgh YMCA in the fall of 1950, cameras in hand. The 22-year-old photographer walked up either Forbes or Fifth Avenue, documenting the people and...

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