Over the course of the past week, PPD featured a number of stories looking back at historical photographs of one sort and another, from a scandalous Diane Arbus image that nearly killed New York magazine during its infancy to a series of Walker Evans portraits capturing the faces of American labor. We also spotlighted a story about the secret history of a photo that … Read the full Story >>
A number of big photography prizes were awarded during the week that was: Antonio Aragn Renuncio of Spain won the $120,000 grand prize in the Hamdan International Photography Award (HIPA) competition in Dubai, while South African photographer Gideon Mendel won the $50,000 Pollock Prize for Creativity. Meanwhile, Japanese photographer Daisuke Yokota was the winner of the 10th Foam Paul Huf Award, worth some $22,000. … Read the full Story >>
Frank Webster, who lives and works in New York, is a painter who often inhabits places that are difficult to be in—from frozen glaciers in the Arctic to overbuilt suburban areas. In these seemingly different environments, he finds the poetics of a natural history as inhabited by humans. So even when his paintings seem to be of buildings they are, in a … Read the full Story >>
Earlier this week we reported that Adobe's latest Creative Cloud update had a Pac-Man problem: It was eating data on the root drive of Macs. Meanwhile we also noted that Shutterstock was getting upwardly mobile and moving into high-end editorial content after signing a distribution deal with BFA, a New York agency that specializes in fashion, events and entertainment photography. And this week we … Read the full Story >>
Andrew Moore, a photographer who has captured the grandeur of decay in Russia, Cuba, and most recently in Detroit, traveled to the oil-rich United Arab Emerites last year. The Urban Landscape of Abu Dhabi, now on view at NYU Abu Dhabi Institute, offers his view of a modern city with big plans for the future. Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab … Read the full Story >>
The way we think about and purchase cameras is changing. Firmware updates have been increasing in frequency, with camera and lens manufacturers issuing fixes to issues that may have not been caught during production and enhancing already-released equipment with newly developed features. As we noted this week, Mitsuteru Hino, Nikon's head of UX Planning, recent told a French photo publication that his company is … Read the full Story >>
When the exhibition "Who Shot Rock & Roll, 1955 to Present" opened at the Brooklyn Museum in 2009, most art critics looked on the photographers who documented the rock revolution as hacks who liked to hang out at concerts. But the show's curator, photo historian Gail Buckland, realized that these talented photographers "were as passionate about music and musicians as Ansel Adams was about … Read the full Story >>
In 2010, a New York University photography student named Ben Franke began watching parkour videos on the Internet and was mesmerized by the athletes he saw bouncing off walls, flying over stairways, and spinning around ledges. Today, Franke may be the world's best known parkour photographer, having devised a way to capture the movements of the athletes in still images by covering them with … Read the full Story >>
Only one in four registered voters have strong confidence in their ability to tell the difference between real and AI-generated visual content, according to new research. Responses to a poll on artificial intelligence in politics done by UK-based research firm Savanta also showed broad concerns among both Democrats and Republicans with AI's influence over elections.Republican voters were less confident than Democrats in spotting AI … Read the full Story >>
Lee Miller lived an incredible 20th-century life. In the new biopic "Lee," which opens tomorrow, Kate Winslet conveys Miller in every iteration of her life: A successful model, she learned from the most sought-after photographers at the time. Moving to Paris, she apprenticed herself with Man Ray and made her start as a fine-art photographer. Moving to London on the day Britain declared war … Read the full Story >>
Suffering for one's art is generally held to be a positive thing. Surfing and outdoor-lifestyle photographer Chris Burkard believes in the value of suffering, but not strictly for art's sake. In his case, it's not mental anguish that motivates and gives meaning to his work, but physical pain that, he says, leads to a personal bliss. In recent years, he's been chasing that bliss … Read the full Story >>
Is a news video produced by artificial intelligence really news? Not so much. At least that was the finding of a recently released study. Researchers at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich, Germany showed study subjects clips from 14 news events involving the likes of Cristiano Ronaldo, Donald Trump and Justin Bieber. For each news story, one video was highly automated, one was partially … Read the full Story >>
Ed Kashi's new book, a collection of photographs and entries from private journals, provides a glimpse of the inner life of a photojournalist traveling to places he would sometimes rather not be, to take pictures of things he would sometimes rather not see. The diary missives, filled with triumphs and turmoil both large and small, can at times be shockingly personal, even raw. "I … Read the full Story >>
As covid-19 tore through the United States in the spring, a senior official in the Trump administration quietly reinforced a set of guidelines that prevented journalists from getting inside all but a handful of hospitals at the front line of the pandemic, noted The Intercept recently. The guidelines made it extremely difficult for hospitals to give photographers the opportunity to collect visual evidence of … Read the full Story >>
U.S. regulators have sued Adobe over claims that the company made it difficult to cancel subscriptions to Photoshop and other software, an escalation by regulators in a crackdown against such practices. The Justice Department said in its lawsuit that Adobe hid details of an expensive cancellation fee from consumers "in fine print and behind optional text boxes and hyperlinks." The Justice Department claims that … Read the full Story >>
During the years he was addicted to heroin, photographer Graham Macindoe took pictures of himself. He used a cheap digital point and shoot, placed on a table or shelf and set to snap at intervals. Then he would shoot up. At that point, photography was all he had left. After being arrested and nearly deported to his native Scotland, MacIndoe became sober and has … Read the full Story >>
PR: When did you know for sure that your metier would be art and design? JC: I won an art award in high school and one of the members of the jury pulled my Dad aside and told him I should pursue a career in art. But I’ve probably known this was the path for me since I was very young. PR: During your … Read the full Story >>
Instagram's popularity continues to grow: As we noted in April, the photo-sharing platform could reach 1 billion users by the end of 2017. But Instagram's cultural clout has led to criticism - recently, it has come under fire after celebrity "influencers" used the service to post sponsored content without adequately divulging the fact that it's paid for, in contravention of FTC guidelines. This week … Read the full Story >>
Wednesday, June 22, 6-7 pm: Art Talk about Landscape and Memory by Cristina Iglesias at Madison Square Park Cristina Iglesias’ installation places five bronze sculptural pools, gently flowing with water arriving in different sequences, into the park’s Oval Lawn, harkening back to when the Cedar Creek—now buried underground—coursed across the land where the park stands today. Building on Iglesias’ practice of unearthing the forgotten and … Read the full Story >>
Instagram continues to roll out new features. Is your professional and personal life getting any better? We noted this week that people seem to be worrying more and more about what social media, including Instagram, are doing to us. Sensing that angst, Instagram has launched features that tell you how much time you're spending on the platform. And to reduce user FOMO, Instagram recent … Read the full Story >>
