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As smartphone cameras proliferate, everyone has become an amateur photographer. Professionals have even felt the squeeze. In May, the Chicago Sun-Times laid off all 28 full-time photographers, followed by news that the newspaper would be training reporters in "iPhone photography basics."

Journalist and comedy writter Dave Nuttycombe took the idea to the extreme in a post last Saturday: What if iPhoneographers replaced photojournalists in history? Published on his Tumblr account, the results made using Hipstamatic offer a colorful -- and heavily cropped -- interpretation of history.

Iwo Jima

Phan Thị Kim Phúc, Vietnam War

"Dewey Defeats Truman"

Hindenberg Crash (with brunch)

[Republished with permission. h/t Gizmodo]

Correction: A previous version of this article incorrectly stated that the Chicago Tribune laid of all of their photographers. It was the Chicago Sun-Times.

Ted Hope published this list on Facebook. The comments are his. I thought readers would like to have this list.

Blogs That Will Review Undistributed Films v1.0 List: Blogs That Will Review Undistributed Films v1.0

As of July 15.2009 All of these blogs got recommended to me as being open to reviewing unreleased film.I have placed the name of the individual who recommended next to the blog.

http://brendonbouzard.com/blog/ Brendon Bouzard

http://cinemaechochamber.blogspot.com/ Brandon Harris

http://wwww.cinematical.com Tze Chun

http://www.cinevegas.com/blog/ Christophe Lepage

http://d2dvd.blogspot.com/ Bill Cunningham action,horror, pulp,sci-fi, thriller

http://www.filmthreat.com/blog/ Christophe Lepage

http://www.filmschoolrejects.com Tze Chun

http://www.hammertonail.com/ Ted Hope

http://iradeutchman.com Christophe Lepage

http:/www.ironweedfilms.com Christophe Lepage

http://www.nerve.com/Cs/blogs/screengrab/default.aspx Christophe Lepage

http://www.notcoming.com Tze Chun...