This is the kind of exhibit you'll want to spend hours enjoying: The Newark Public Library will showcase original photos, iconic photo-books and select photo journals from the late 19th century to the present day. The exhibit is called Photographic Books and Prints from the Special Collections of the Newark Public Library, and is on view from January 20 through March 20.

It's quite an archive on display here: rare issues of Camera Work; a portfolio of 20 photogravures by Paul Strand and original photographs and photo-books by Diane Arbus, Margaret Bourke-White, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Roy DeCarava, Elliott Erwitt, Robert Frank, Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, Edwin Hale Lincoln, Gordon Parks, Sebastiao Salgado, Weegee and others.

Tired of living in the shadow of Manhattan and Philadelphia advertising firms, marketing and public relations agencies and media businesses in New Jersey agree they need to brand the state as a worthy market for advertising dollars.

But first the industry must put competition and geographical separation aside to define why advertisers would want to skip the Madison Avenue firms.

Today is the one-year anniversary of the death of Dith Pran, the survivor of Cambodia's Killing Fields and battler of genocide who was also a photographer for The Times, based in New Jersey. He took dozens of pictures for The Times of Maplewood, Millburn and South Orange.

After 23 years of brain-aided communication, the much-admired, much copied studio, The Designers Republic closed for business on Tuesday. But, as its founder Ian Anderson tells CR, it will rise again

All week, rumours have been flying around the internet that DR had gone out of business. CR can confirm that it is true. On Tuesday this week, the business was closed with nine staff being made redundant. According to its founder, Ian Anderson, the studio became insolvent due to a combination of factors: "We'd lost a couple of clients, didn't win a couple of pitches, got a tax bill which should have been sorted out and wasn't and a major client who didn't pay the money they owed us – in themselves any of those things would have been fine but when they come all at once there's not much you can do."

However, while stressing that he is "gutted for the staff" and not wishing in any way to make light of the impact the studio's closure will have on them, Anderson says that, in some ways, DR coming to an end "may be a blessing in disguise."

Article looks in on new digital SLR offerings including the Nikon D80, Canon EOS Digital Rebel XT and Sony Alpha DSLR-A100

The two friends rode side by side, mimicking a motorcycle scene in "Easy Rider."

Except Patrick O'Brien, 31, and his friend, Mal Torrance, were cruising the streets of Asbury Park in motorized wheelchairs, an American flag flying from the back of O'Brien's chair.