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Photo Shanghai: Marc Riboud’s photography – The Leica Camera Blog
Link: Arts Program Director and Curator Lorène Durret has been working with Riboud for seven years and provides on behalf of Marc Riboud, thoughts on his experience, photography and Photo Shanghai.
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Aaron Blum – A Guide To Folk Taxonomy « burn magazine
Aaron Blum – A Guide To Folk Taxonomy Aaron Blum A Guide To Folk Taxonomy Appalachia pulls at me like a haunted memory. It is a place of nebulous forests, moss blankets and dark corners where secrets are kept and folklore thrives. Huma… via burn magazine: https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2016/09/aaron-blum-a-guide-to-folk-taxonomy/ Appalachia pulls at me like a haunted memory.…
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The Future Perfect at ICP and Photoville | LENSCRATCH
The Future Perfect at ICP and Photoville – LENSCRATCH “Like writing, photography is a tool adaptable to literary and prosaic ends, suited to eulogize, lambaste, control, scandalize, foster intimacy, or remind us of our shared ethical core.” – Yola Monakhov Stockton, Lead Curator of The Future Perfect The Future Perfect, a new exhibition featuring work…
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The Trauma of Violent News on the Internet – The New York Times
The Trauma of Violent News on the Internet (Published 2016) How violent images and news on the internet may be more traumatic for some viewers than those in traditional media. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/11/fashion/the-trauma-of-violent-news-on-the-internet.html “The world has always been messy,” President Obama said in 2014 after a string of doom-and-gloom news events. “In part, we’re just noticing…
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Maria Gruzdeva, Border – The Eye of Photography
Link: BORDER is a journey along the Russian border, the longest national border in the world, which spans over 60,000 km. This book will take you on a unique trip from the warm regions of the Caucasus to the extreme cold of the North – to the Russian temporary ice base Barneo, drifting into the…
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Getty Images Asks Judge to Throw Out $1 Billion Copyright Lawsuit
Getty Images Asks Judge to Throw Out $1 Billion Copyright Lawsuit Getty Images has filed their official response to Carol Highsmith’s highly-publicized $1 Billion copyright claim against the company. And the gist of the via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2016/09/12/getty-images-asks-judge-throw-1-billion-copyright-lawsuit/ “Public domain works are routinely commercialized,” writes Getty. “Publishers charge money for their copies of Dickens novels and…
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Google releases iPhone version of Cardboard Camera app for taking VR photos | 9to5Mac
Google releases iPhone version of Cardboard Camera app for taking VR photos – 9to5Mac Previously available on Android only, Google today released its Cardboard Camera app for iPhone and iPad alongside new features for… via 9to5Mac: https://9to5mac.com/2016/09/12/google-iphone-ipad-cardboard-camera-app-vr-photos/ The app allows users to capture and share three-dimensional panoramas that Google calls VR Photos and share them…
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AI Can Recognize Your Face Even If You’re Pixelated | WIRED
AI Can Recognize Your Face Even If You’re Pixelated Hackers can train artificial neural networks to recognize objects, read text, and even identify faces in obfuscated images. via WIRED: https://www.wired.com/2016/09/machine-learning-can-identify-pixelated-faces-researchers-show/ Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin and Cornell Tech say that they’ve trained a piece of software that can undermine the privacy benefits…
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What’s next for visual story telling? – Kaptur
What’s next for visual story telling? – Kaptur Meet Storyo, the Portuguese company that is committed to revolutionize the way visual content is created and shared via Kaptur: https://kaptur.co/whats-next-visual-story-telling/ The future of visual story telling session at Mobile Photo Connect this year will feature Filipe Vasconcellos, CEO of Storyo, a startup that is tackling the…
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One Syrian Photojournalist’s Last Letter, Published After His Death
One Syrian Photojournalist’s Last Letter, Published After His Death Syrian photographer, journalist, and activist Shamel Al-Ahmad knew well the risk he was taking staying in Aleppo, documenting the atrocities being via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2016/09/12/one-syrian-photojournalists-last-letter-published-death/ Syrian photographer, journalist, and activist Shamel Al-Ahmad knew well the risk he was taking staying in Aleppo, documenting the atrocities being perpetrated…
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After Years in Prison, Man Emerges a Talented Street Photographer
After Years in Prison, Man Emerges a Talented Street Photographer Donato Di Camillo’s “how I got into photography” story is different. You won’t hear it’s like at the camera store check out counter, and we can pretty via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2016/09/12/years-prison-man-emerges-talented-street-photographer/ Donato Di Camillo‘s “how I got into photography” story is different. You won’t hear it’s…
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From Boston to the world – The Leica Camera Blog
Link: Magnum photographer Constantine Manos has taken epic images that have long trascended in the minds of those who love photography.
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Facebook failed to prevent a 14-year-old girl from suing over a naked photo – Business Insider
Facebook tried to prevent a 14-year-old girl from suing it over a naked photo – and failed A lawyer for the teenager, who cannot be named because of her age, compared the publishing of the photo to a method of child abuse. via Business Insider: https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-14-year-old-girl-lawsuit-naked-photo-2016-9 A high court judge in Belfast on Monday rejected…
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David Cantor Remembered, NPPA Mentor and Photo Editor | NPPA
Link: Cantor was also generous, giving time to upcoming photographers in various ways, including the National Press Photographers Association’s Mentor program. Many of those he advised have gone on to success.
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Adobe’s Lightroom camera now lets you shoot in raw from your iPhone like a pro | 9to5Mac
Adobe’s Lightroom camera now lets you shoot in raw from your iPhone like a pro – 9to5Mac Adobe’s Lightroom app continues to live on the edge of what’s possible with Apple’s various platforms, and the latest version of… via 9to5Mac: https://9to5mac.com/2016/09/13/adobe-lightroom-raw-iphone-camera/ Apple’s built-in Camera app doesn’t allow you to shoot in raw even as an option,…
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James Nachtwey’s Archive to Be Preserved at Dartmouth College | TIME
James Nachtwey’s Archive to be Preserved at Dartmouth College The archive counts hundreds of thousands of negatives and prints via Time: https://time.com/4486758/james-nachtwey-dartmouth-college/ Hundreds of thousands of negatives and prints will be preserved
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Southern California, End of the Line – The New Yorker
Southern California, End of the Line Gregory Halpern’s “Zzyzx,” which takes its title from an unincorporated parcel of the Mojave desert, portrays desolation and beauty of an unforgiving sort. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/southern-california-end-of-the-line Gregory Halpern’s new photo book, “Zzyzx,” operates like a road map, or a set of road maps, leading viewers to the…
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Adobe DNG Leads the Way for High-Quality Photos on Smartphones and Tablets | Photoshop Blog by Adobe
Link: Many of you know Thomas Knoll as the man behind Photoshop, but he’s also the architect responsible for the creation of the Adobe DNG file format. Now that Adobe DNG is integrated into iOS and Android and is the default raw format for high-quality mobile photography, we’ve asked Thomas to discuss the history and…
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These Drone Photos Will Inspire You to Explore the World (Sponsored) – Feature Shoot
These Drone Photos Will Inspire You to Explore the World (Sponsored) Offset Artist Karolis Janulis always wanted wings, to see the world not as humans see it but as the birds do. The self-taught Lithuanian photographer plunged headlong into drone photography when the DJI Phantom hit the market, but his intended destination has always been…