A big welcome to new readers finding their way here from Harrumph. I'm a long-time fan of Heather's site and The Mirror Project, so it's great to connect up the dots.

Susannah Breslin of The Reverse Cowgirl's Blog has been photographing mannequins for quite some time. A new page on her blog highlights mannequins found in Los Angeles, New York and Amsterdam.

No Commercial Potential is also fascinated by mannequins, having photographed 45 different variations in unique and interesting ways (click individual image links half way down the page under 'Comparative Mannequinology').

In Issue 5 of the Tate Magazine, Carter Ratcliff considers the place of documentary photography in the world of fine art in this insightful article. "There is no need to call a document a work of art, nor would there be any need to make this obvious point if art galleries and museums had not been crowded in recent years by photographic images which have little beyond their documentary value to recommend them" (via Modern Art Notes).

The San Francisco Public Library has digitised 30,000 of the 250,000 images in its Historical Photograph Collection. The collection includes photos of the 1868 and 1906 earthquakes, the Golden Gate International Exposition held in 1939, and this captivating image of six divers in mid-air at Fleishhacker Pool.

PDN Online reviews a series of new releases of photography books on the Iraqi war. These include LIFE: The War in Iraq, The War in Iraq: A Photo History, Witness Iraq, and 21 Days to Baghdad: A Chronicle of the Iraq War, noting that several don't quite measure up in terms of editing and organisation.

Anne Makepeace's new documentary film devoted to the life of legendary Hungarian-born photojournalist Robert Capa: In Love and War draws on more than forty interviews of friends, family and admirers who knew Capa, as well as archival footage and a selection of the tens of thousands of images he shot over his lifetime. The 90-minute film is being screened daily at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography. Until 18 July.