'New York Times' Launches Large-Format Photo Blog

Very cool. This one gets bookmarked.

NEW YORK After more than a year in development, The New York Times launched a large-format photo blog Monday to showcase photojournalism projects.

Lens, as the new blog is called, joins a growing field of sites that showcase photo projects that might not be able to find a home in print. The blog has the advantages of drawing on the prestige of the Times, which just won a Pulitzer Prize for photography, and the popularity of NYTimes.com, the most popular U.S. newspaper Web site.

“We’re pretty darn proud of it,” says Josh Haner, a New York Times staff photographer and one of three Times staff assigned to produce the blog. The others are senior staff photographer James Estrin and metro reporter David W. Dunlap.

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Haner describes it as a “centralized showcase of best work” from the Times photo department. “We really wanted a home for photography,” he says.

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