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David Schonauer Friday December 13, 2019
America, you're in an intense mood. Stock giant Shutterstock recently released its annual report predicting the dominant colors for the year ahead, based on customer downloads and an analysis of pixel
data from all those images. It's conclusions: 2020 will be filled with saturated hues named Lush Lava, Aqua Menthe, and Phantom Blue. "From fashion to fine arts, we've been seeing a shift from … Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Friday April 12, 2024
OpenAI still hasn't divulged when its AI video generator Sora will be available, but it's continuing to show just what the new service can do. Recently, for instance, OpenAI posted the music video for
a song called "Worldweight," by indie musician August Kamp, that was created with Sora. Meanwhile, questions remain about Sora's training data. According to The New York Times, OpenAI has "cut … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Monday November 4, 2013
Art Journalist, illustrator, caricaturist, film maker, and all around swell fellow, Steve Brodner has been a friend of DART since before there was a DART. In fact, he was my
“celeb interview" for the single-issue precursor to this newsletter, back in 2005, when his book Freedom Fries was published. Steve presents Illustration Next, tomorrow at 7 pm, at the Third Floor Amphitheater at SVA, … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday December 11, 2019
Josef Conrad’s Heart of
Darkness is arguably one of the most significant works of fiction in the modern era. First serialized in Blackwood’s Magazine in 1899, at the height of European imperial wealth and
corruption, the novella, which can be read on a slow evening, set the stage for 20th-century masterpieces such as William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, and later, Francis
Ford … Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Thursday December 7, 2017
It's a litigious holiday season: On Tuesday, we noted that the performer Bruno Mars is being sued for copyright infringement by a photographer after he posted a childhood photo of himself on social
media. The photographer, Catherine McGann, took the photo of Mars in 1989, when Mars was three or four years old. In June, Mars published the photograph to social media. He did … Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Thursday May 30, 2019
The photo industry has discovered that women take pictures. In March, for instance, Swedish camera manufacturer Hasselblad celebrated International Women's Day by launching a project called Hasselblad
Heroines, which, noted the company, "highlights the achievements of female photographers worldwide." In weekly spotlights, the Heroines -- Pei Ketron (San Francisco); Shelby Knick (Los Angeles); Tina
Signesdottir Hult (Norway); the team of Sarah Cooper and Nina … Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Wednesday January 15, 2025
As of Wednesday, NBC News was reporting that the death toll from fires in Los Angeles had climbed to 24, while CNN was noting that more than 6 million in L.A. remained under critical fire threat as
high winds threatened more devastation. Meanwhile New York magazine's Vulture blog was focusing on how paparazzi were braving flames to get pictures of celebrities evacuating their homes. … Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Monday March 5, 2018
How graphic is too graphic when it comes to covering a high school shooting? What will life be like in the post-text future? And where did the term "rogues gallery" come from? Today we collect
together a number of the stories that have caught our eye and piqued our interest in recent weeks. They include predictions about the future of photography and looks back … Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Tuesday July 26, 2016
Andy Goodwin is a commercial photographer based in Frankfort, Illinois, a southern suburb of Chicago, who has built up an impressive commercial business working for companies like John Deere, PNC
Bank, and Chesapeake Energy. But when he had some free time earlier this year, he began a project that took him in an entirely new direction - making a short video documentary about people … Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Friday January 7, 2022
Dirty-faced children, food-stall vendors and Roma dancers. Those were some of the subjects that interested Sabine Weiss, who, noted The New York Times recently, "captured the struggles, hopes and
occasional moments of humor on the streets of postwar France." The last of the post-World War II French humanist photography school, which included Robert Doisneau, Willy Ronis and Brassai. Weiss died
on Dec. 28 at … Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Friday August 11, 2017
French photographer Mathias Depardon was shooting an assignment for National Geographic in southeastern Turkey when he was detained by police on May 8, accused of having created "propaganda for a
terrorist organization" - namely, the banned Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PPK. On May 24 he began a hunger strike, and after outcries from press organizations around the world he was finally released
on June … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday May 30, 2024
‘T’ Space is a visionary arts organization with a focus on education, design and ecology, located on a 30-acre woodland site in the Hudson Valley and founded by renowned international architect Steven Holl. Dedicated to the preservation of its naturally forested habitat, ‘T’ Space offers art and architecture exhibitions united with poetry readings and music performances by international and emerging artists with … 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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Peggy Roalf Wednesday November 16, 2011
John Chiara makes large-scale, unique photographs using a camera obscura of his own design. If you were to catch him on the mobile early on a work day, he might say, “Hang on
while I park the camera.” The Big Camera, as it has become known, is roughly the size of a U-Haul, which Chiara drives all over the San Francisco Bay Area, creating … Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Friday March 6, 2020
The US Justice Department has come to the aid of Chelsey Nelson. Last November, Nelson, a Kentucky-based wedding photographer, made headlines when a conservative advocacy group filed suit on her
behalf against Louisville officials challenging a city ordinance banning businesses from discriminating against gay customers. In the suit, Nelson argues that the law conflicts with her religious
beliefs, though according to court records she … Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Friday February 5, 2016
What constitutes "fair use" appropriation of an image? That can be a vexing question, but whatever it is, an Obama administration task force wants more of it. We learned this week that the US
Department of Commerce's Internet Policy Task Force has called for "a vibrant fair use space" that allows "the broad range of remixes to thrive." At the same time, the task … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday September 21, 2022
Steve Brodner, the inimitable social satirist who regularly shoots truth at power through his biting caricatures, original reporting and trenchant commentary, has just published a new book: Living and Dying in America, a Daily Chronicle 2020-2022 (Fantagraphics). Through his six-decade career, his work has appeared in such publications as The Atlantic, Esquire, GQ, Mother Jones, The New York Times … Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Thursday September 6, 2018
Where is the art of wedding photography headed? Up! And in New Hampshire, way, way up. This week we spotlighted the work of New Hampshire husband-and-wife photo duo Jay and Vicki Philbrick, who
capture the emotional highs of weddings by photographing couples perched on the side of cliffs. It's usually the bride's idea, says Jay: Grooms are often less comfortable with the idea. Meanwhile, … Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Thursday February 9, 2017
The thirst for imagery of America from the 1970s and 1980s seems unquenchable. Each season brings a new collection of books and exhibitions featuring photography made during the period, and today we
spotlight three new entries in the field: an exhibition of photographer Bill Bernstein's images of New York's fabulous disco days; Sage Sohier's book "Americans Seen," a portrait of American life in
and … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday September 28, 2022
Type@Cooper offers continuing education post-graduate courses, including certificate programs in type design, public workshops, and exhibitions. The majority of these courses are limited to 16 to 22 students, by registration.
Top industry professionals lead a highly focused and comprehensive study of key typeface design principles: technique, technology, aesthetics, expression, history, and theory. Students explore the foundation of typography in depth by creating their own typefaces … Read the full Story >>
