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Peggy Roalf Thursday December 13, 2018
Self. Family. Memory. Loss. Displacement. Catastrophe. These are subjects
of concern in the visual arts—perhaps never more so than today. As the planet degrades at an accelerating pace; as war, poverty, displacement, tribalism, nationalism and other such human
catastrophes fail to be contained, photographers in particular make these subjects the focus of their work. And with increasing frequency, the self-published photobook is the locus … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday January 2, 2019
The first DART Board of 2019 is a hybrid: introducing
the winners of the last Book Prize Contest of 2018, ahead of must-see museum shows soon to close. Here’s the summary: In the past the Book Prize Contest has involved
identifying, from a photo of mine, “Where in New York Am I?” Info But this one
is different. It invites DART subscribers to … Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Thursday October 25, 2018
Andy Warhol was almost never without his camera. Until his death in 1986, he snapped pictures at discos, dinner parties, wrestling matches and art openings, capturing celebrities and friends,
business associates and people he simply saw on the street. As in many things, he anticipated the future -- one in which everyone would photograph everything all the time. Warhol printed only about 17
percent … Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Friday February 7, 2020
Ariana Grande is being sued by a photographer. Again. Actually, she's being sued by the same photographer who sued her last May, and for the same reason: Posting photos to Instagram without licensing
them. On Monday, that photographer, Robert Barbera, sued Grande for using a photo he shot in 2018 to promote a clothing line. Meanwhile, Kim Kardashian has been sued by photographer Saeed … Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Friday August 12, 2022
"It's starting, interest is waning in the Ukraine / Putin war -- we cannot allow this," declares Frank Meo of Projections, the streaming series in which photographers present and discuss their work.
This week the series presented five photographers (one per night) who have been covering the war in Ukraine: Sasha Maslov, Alex Lourie, Heathcliff O'Malley, Heidi Levine and Marcus Yam. The
presentations are … Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Friday July 17, 2020
This story may sound familiar to you: We noted this week that a Virginia-based photographer, Chris Herring, filed a lawsuit in federal court claiming that the state's new anti-discrimination law
infringes on his first amendment rights. The photographer objects to shooting same-sex weddings on religious grounds and believes the new law could "force" him to either work with same-sex couples or
face bankruptcy. A … Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Friday October 13, 2023
Size doesn't matter, in advertising, at least: We noted this week that Wendy's and McDonald's have won a lawsuit that accused the fast food chains of false advertising when it came to the their
burgers. The plaintiff's complaint in the 2022 lawsuit said the hamburgers the companies sell aren't as big and juicy as the ones show in their advertising images. But U.S. District … Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Friday March 15, 2019
Donald Trump often complains about journalists. This week we learned that his administration has also been tracking them at the U.S.-Mexico border. In an attempt to determine who was behind the
caravans that were bringing large numbers of migrants from Central America to the southwest border, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials created a secret database of journalists and
activists whom they subjected … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Tuesday June 18, 2013
And the Winner IsDebra Ziss of Brooklyn, NY, entered last week's Book Prize Contest, which asked Where In New York Am I?She wrote:That
is a view of the cranes at the Red Hook Container Terminal as seen across Buttermilk Channel. Most likely shot either in the waters of Buttermilk Channel or while standing on Kimmel Road or
Craig Road South on Governor's Island. Approximate … Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Friday March 11, 2016
What visual trends will be driving photography in 2016? Photo-sharing platform EyeEm recently used sales and engagement statistics from its EyeEm Market stock-photo sales platform, as well as ad
agency and brand forecasts, to identify what kinds of stock photos will be selling this spring and summer. (Think neon and nature). We spotlighted the predictions, as well as a new survey showing that
UK … Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Friday June 17, 2022
The fight for the right to repair scored a huge win in New York recently. This week we noted that New York's state legislature passed the Fair Repair Act, which requires digital electronics
manufacturers, like laptop and smartphone manufacturers, to make diagnostic and repair information available to consumers and independent repair shops. The bill is designed to protect consumers from
"the monopolistic practices of … Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Friday December 6, 2019
"I have to live with it," says Ron Haeberle. By "it," he means the murder of 504 unarmed civilians by U.S. soldiers during the Vietnam War, an incident that came to be known as the My Lai Massacre.
Haeberle was at the scene, working as a U.S. Army photographer on March 16, 1968, and he recorded the aftermath of what happened. His pictures appeared … Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Thursday February 6, 2025
Instagram users are reacting to the recent change in their profile grid, which is now displaying their photos in rectangle format rather than square. For some photographers, noted PetaPixel, the
change has wreaked havoc with their carefully curated profile. One analog photographer took to Reddit to complain "my nice square-frame aspect ratio that I set to make my 6x6 and 35mm look nice in … Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Friday October 2, 2020
It has been five years since Mary Ellen Mark died at age 75. And now there is "Mary Ellen Mark: The Book of Everything," a major collection from Steidl containing 600 of the famed documentary
photographer's images, chosen by Mark's husband Martin Bell from a total of two million images taken throughout Mark's career. The book also features texts by colleagues and friends, as … Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Friday December 29, 2023
"My journeys have taken me deep into Myanmar's heart, allowing me to capture its traditional culture and lifestyle with a touch of artistic finesse." So said Aung Chan Thar when we announced him as
the grand-prize winner of the American Photography Open 2023 competition. Aung impressed the contest's judges with his image "Night Fisherman," which depicted a fisherman plying his trade on Myanmar's
Inle … Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Tuesday May 8, 2018
When is an anteater not an anteater? When it's stuffed. Brazilian photographer Marcio Cabral was recently stripped of a prestigious award in the 2017 Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition
because his winning image featured a taxidermy anteater. The news shook the wildlife photography community and made headlines in newspapers and blogs around the world. Even talk-show host Conan
O'Brien weighed in with some … Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Thursday October 12, 2017
It's been a week of nature at PPD: On Monday we featured winning work from the 2017 Bird Photographer of the Year competition, as well as work from finalists in the 2017 Wildlife Photographer of the
Year competition. We also noted that National Geographic is accepting entries for its annual Nature Photographer of the Year competition through November 17. And on Wednesday we spotlighted … Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Friday March 4, 2016
This week we looked at photography's current obsession with New York City in the late 1970s and early 1980s. On Tuesday our AI-AP Profile focused on Arlene Gottfried, who has been photographing New
Yorkers with tender honesty for four decades and is now an overnight sensation. We also looked at a number of recent exhibitions focusing on NYC of yore, from the city's bohemian … Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Friday April 16, 2021
June Newton was a photo legend married to a photo legend. Newton, the Australian-born, globetrotting portrait photographer and wife of the late photographer Helmut Newton, died at her home in Monte
Carlo on April 9. She was 97. Under her own name she worked on the design and publication of art books by her husband, but as Alice Springs she was one of the … Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Friday February 10, 2023
The rise of AI has raised legal questions, and the stakes, we noted this week, are growing exponentially: Getty Images has filed a lawsuit in the U.S. against Stability AI, creators of open-source AI
art generator Stable Diffusion, alleging "brazen" intellectual property theft on a "staggering scale." Getty claims that Stability AI copied more than 12 million images from its database "without
permission ... … Read the full Story >>
