News organizations are scrambling to adjust to the latest rift in the long-fractious relationship between publishers and tech platforms.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/19/technology/news-social-media-traffic.html
Even in the long-fractious relationship between publishers and tech platforms, the latest rift stands out — and the consequences for the news industry are stark.
How an award-winning filmmaker made a movie with a cutting-edge camera for a screen he hadn’t seen yet.
via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2023/10/20/darren-aronofsky-says-it-takes-12-people-to-use-the-18k-sphere-camera/
Aronofsky’s 18K resolution film plays back at Sphere at a blistering-fast 60 frames per second, more than twice the speed of the typical 24p motion picture, and is about half a petabyte in size, or about 500 terabytes. Aronofsky explains that the movie is about 32GB of data per second, or nearly 2,000 GB a minute.
The Israel-Hamas war has displayed with fresh urgency the perils of relying on our feeds for updates about events unfolding in real time.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/how-social-media-abdicated-responsibility-for-the-news
An “algorithmically driven fog of war” is how one journalist described the deluge of disinformation and mislabelled footage on X. Videos from a paragliding accident in South Korea in June of this year, the Syrian civil war in 2014, and a combat video game called Arma 3 have all been falsely labelled as scenes from Israel or Gaza. (Inquiries I sent to X were met with an e-mail reading, “Busy now, please check back later.”)
It was on everyone’s lips and digital wallets, Fortunes were to be made. It was the future of photography. Where are NFT s now?
via Kaptur: https://kaptur.co/where-are-nft-s-today/
According to a recent report, 95% of NFT owners have lost money.
He was providing a live video signal of the air strikes.
via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2023/10/16/reuters-videographer-killed-by-israeli-shelling/
According to Reuters, videographer Issam Abdallah was killed on Friday evening as he and a group of international journalists were working near the village of Alma al-Shaab in south Lebanon.
In her debut photobook, Dormant Season, from Charcoal Press, Erinn Springer returns to her roots in rural Wisconsin to photograph a familiar but evolving agrarian landscape. Set against the stark winter terrain, Springer leads us to witness the raw contrasting realities of modern Midwest life, a realm where past and present intertwine with fleeting moments
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2023/10/erinn-springer-dormant-season/
Going home always felt like opening a time capsule. Certain things had changed like friends moving or neighborhood homes being remodeled but my immediate family all lives as they did when I was a kid. I think recent events had made me realize that this, too, would inevitably change, so I wanted to be present to document whatever I could. The camera was able to translate my emotions and my perception of the atmosphere in a way that was perceivable to others
The image of two runners was reportedly removed online because it included numbers related to the Tiananmen Square massacre.
via Hyperallergic: http://hyperallergic.com/849175/did-china-censor-a-photo-of-two-women-athletes-embracing/
The image of two runners was reportedly removed online because it included numbers related to the Tiananmen Square massacre.
This week, we will be exploring projects inspired by place. Today, we’ll be looking at Edwin Averette III’s series The American Family Cemetery. Edwin Averette III was an undergraduate photography student while I was at East Carolina University. He was one of the most hardworking and dedicated students. I heard a story where, during a hurricane,
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2023/10/edwin-averette-iii-the-american-family-cemetery/
For years I met with individuals that were generations older than myself. They showed me their family photo albums. Within those albums were family portraits of every generation of the family. This body of work highlights the American Family Cemetery as the surviving entity of the generations before us in this Eastern North Carolina landscape. They are constructed environments in everchanging context through interactions during and after the remaining persons were reposed. These burial grounds are essentially their own family portrait, not of just one generation, but all of them.
Today, Leica has announced the Sofort 2, a hybrid instant compact camera. Combining digital capture and analog output, the Leica Sofort 2 offers the fun and spontaneous aesthetic of the original Sofort introduced in 2016, but with far more more flexibility. The camera can take an image and print it out instantly just like the original, shoot and store to a microSD card without printing like a point-and-shoot digital camera, or be used as a portable wireless printer for outputting instant prints from other Leica cameras via the FOTOS app.
via Red Dot Forum: https://www.reddotforum.com/content/2023/10/leica-sofort-2-hybrid-instant-camera/
Today, Leica has announced the Sofort 2, a hybrid instant compact camera. Combining digital capture and analog output, the Leica Sofort 2 offers the fun and spontaneous aesthetic of the original Sofort introduced in 2016, but with far more more flexibility. The camera can take an image and print it out instantly just like the original, shoot and store to a microSD card without printing like a point-and-shoot digital camera, or be used as a portable wireless printer for outputting instant prints from other Leica cameras via the FOTOS app.
A film by Ed Ou and Will N. Miller uses a fictional narrative based on investigative reporting, and real footage, to capture gritty work at sea.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-documentary/squid-fleet-takes-you-into-the-opaque-world-of-chinese-fishing
A film by Ed Ou and Will N. Miller uses a fictional narrative based on investigative reporting, and real footage, to capture gritty work at sea.
Tamara Reynolds is a documentary photographer born and raised in Nashville, Tennessee who exhibits her work nationally and internationally. She will be returning as a visiting Lecturer to Vanderbilt University in Nashville for the spring semester of 2024. Reynolds began her career as a commercial photographer for 25 years. Although very successful, over time she
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2023/10/tamara-reynolds-xx/
In her project The Drake, she photographed one square block located a mile from downtown Nashville, documenting over time the people who live within the shadows of hidden cycles of addiction as well as social and economic marginalization. Her work continues to shed light on the world in which we live with a deeper and more compassionate understanding
The Center for Photographic Art, in conjunction with PhotoLucida, is pleased to announce the 2023 Critical Mass Solo Exhibition Award. This year’s recipient is Landry Major. The artist will be exhibiting a large selection of gelatin silver prints from her long-term project, Keepers of the West and will be on the walls of CPA through
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2023/10/landry-major-keepers-of-the-west/
My ongoing series Keepers of the West took me back to fields at dawn, this time on the family-run ranches of the American West. Visions of the West have long been central to our culture, but the way of life of the cowboy and the family-run ranch is fast disappearing.
Hiroshi Sugimoto: Time Machine at the Hayward Gallery, London, marks the largest retrospective to date of the internationally renowned Japanese artist. 1000 Words Editor in Chief Tim Clark speaks with Director Ralph Rugoff about the exhibition making process, stretching and reshaping our notions of time in photography, the artist’s affinities with other art forms and why Sugimoto’s approach can be framed through a ‘lens of doubt’.
via 1000 Words: https://www.1000wordsmag.com/hiroshi-sugimoto-time-machine/
Sugimoto turned 75 this year, and it seemed like a career survey in London was overdue, as he’s been making influential and highly singular photographs for five decades. I don’t think there’s another contemporary artist who has so rigorously and inventively explored the medium’s possibilities, and in our era of Deep Fakes, some of his work also takes on a special resonance as it reveals photography’s inescapable artifice, and reminds us in different ways that photographs do not present an objective view of reality
For 75 years, the workshop has drawn photographers from around the world to tell the visual story of a community.
via Columbia Missourian: https://www.columbiamissourian.com/news/local/missouri-photo-workshop-aims-to-show-truth-with-a-camera/article_6e9c89b2-5d52-11ee-a49d-a36a74459788.html
Dozens of crew members arrived early Sunday at the 75th annual Missouri Photo Workshop’s headquarters carrying coffee, cameras and computer bags
Barbara Mensch’s new photographic history, “A Falling-Off Place,” begins in the early eighties, and shows a city transformed.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/watching-the-southern-tip-of-manhattan-change-for-forty-years
She spent some two years making inroads with the market workers, visiting them as they worked at night, at first, hiding her Rolleiflex camera inside her jacket. In order to show the bosses the kind of project she hoped to do (and to convince them that she wasn’t a federal agent), she came armed with monographs by artists such as Darius Kinsey, who, with the help of his wife, produced photographs of the logging industry in the Pacific Northwest from the turn of the century until 1940
Moises Saman’s new book “Glad Tidings of Benevolence” attempts to unwind 20 years of covering war in Iraq.
via Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/photography/2023/09/27/this-work-is-haunting-haunted-by-ghosts-history-its-casualties/
Photographer Moises Saman’s book “Glad Tidings of Benevolence” (GOST, 2023) starts off with this banger of a quote from Walter Benjamin: “To articulate the past historically does not mean to recognize it ‘the way it really was.’ It means to seize hold of a memory as it flashes up at a moment of danger.”
The esteemed photographer has spend more then a decade in places such as Bosnia and Liberia, remembered in a powerful new book
via the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/sep/26/corinne-dufka-war-photographer-book
As the acclaimed American war photographer Corinne Dufka sorted through the pictures and negatives for her new book, This Is War: Photographs from a Decade of Conflict, covering more than a decade on frontlines from El Salvador to Bosnia and Liberia, she once again looked into the faces she had perhaps only registered briefly years ago.
This week, we will be exploring projects inspired by place. Today, we’ll be looking at Anna Reich’s series This Land: Landscape, Memory, and Identity on the Plains. Sioux Falls, South Dakota, has a small but spirited art community. Anna Reich is one of th
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2023/09/anna-reich-this-land/
My artistic practice is based on the belief that the process of creating a visual record is as valuable as the existence of one. I use the camera as a tool to translate experience and meaning, often being both celebratory and critical of photography. Much of my work from the last ten years has been socially engaged; first, investigating issues relating to cultural trauma and post-traumatic stress and second, questioning the use of land and development of unsustainable communities in the western half of the United States.
The jarring juxtapositions of Jamie Lee Taete’s collection showcase the sometimes fine line between gimmickry and genuine belief.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/the-playful-and-provocative-images-of-christian-tourism
It was a billboard in Branson for “Noah” that caught the British photographer Jamie Lee Taete’s eye, with the patriarch’s name floating beside his gopher-wood vessel, both framing some relevant, if irreverent, information: “back for one season only!”
Benjamin Briones Grandi‘s sleek series of photomontages, Memories, transforms Chile’s awe-inspiring geography into surreal dream works that speak to the profound spiritual essence of the natural world. From lush forests to arid deserts, the Chilean photog
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2023/09/benjamin-briones-grandi-memories/
Benjamin Briones Grandi‘s sleek series of photomontages, Memories, transforms Chile’s awe-inspiring geography into surreal dream works that speak to the profound spiritual essence of the natural world