Editor's Note: The Book Prize Contest winner will be announced on Friday, August 7Northeast America Is Hard to See, through September 27. Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, NY. Information. Sargent, through October 4. Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, NY. Information. China: Through the Looking Glass, through August 16. Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, NY. Information. Albert Oehlin | Home and Garden, … Read the full Story >>
Photokina, the imaging trade show in Cologne, Germany, is ending. The biennial event's organizers at the Koelnmesse say the show has been cancelled (after 70 years) "for the time being" because of the "massive decline in markets for imaging products" -- a downward trend made worse by the covid-19 pandemic. "The trend in this industry, with which we have always had a close and … Read the full Story >>
A court in Beijing, China, has awarded copyright status to an AI-generated image, opening what one blog called "a new chapter in the murky legal waters of AI art." The finding, the first of its kind in China, "is in direct conflict with the human authorship requirement under U.S. copyright law and may have far-reaching implications." noted the National Law Review. Assigning generative AI … Read the full Story >>
The future of filmmaking is arriving ahead of schedule: This week we noted that Toys "R" Us premiered a short promo film at the 2024 Cannes Lions Festival in France that was created almost entirely by using OpenAI's new text-to-video tool. The company's entertainment studio partnered with a creative agency that had early access to Sora, which is not yet publicly available. We also … Read the full Story >>
A Site to Behold On Sunday, Socrates Sculpture Park opens it’s 2013 Emerging Artist Fellowship Exhibition. Fifteen new commissions on view respond specifically to the park’s unique waterfront and urban environment with conceptual and formal artworks that are visually compelling, subtly mysterious and, at times, provocative. This exhibition features the collective works of the park’s 2013 Emerging Artists Fellows, each chosen through a rigorous application process; they … Read the full Story >>
Paul Caponigro, who studied with Minor White and went on to become one of America's foremost landscape photographers and an expert in the traditional silver gelatin process he used to create his black-and-white images, died on died on Nov. 10. The cause was congestive heart failure, his son, the photographer John Paul Caponigro, announced on social media. "He is still known today really as … Read the full Story >>
Winning an award in international photo contests is the dream of many photographers and often the pinnacle of their careers. Beyond that, there is no doubt that winning a respected award can be a massive boon to a photographer's career. Many photographers find that participating in awards can not only get their work noticed and give them credibility as a photographer, but also spur … Read the full Story >>
This week we took note of a disappointed bride who recently posted about how bad her wedding photos were: The pictures, she said made her want to "cry every single day," and that the photographer wasn't returning her calls. (One commenter suggested that the poor quality of the photos had to do with a malfunctioning SD card.) Her post garnered some 2.6 million views. … Read the full Story >>
Buttons. Cake. Slot machines. For the past year, artist Andres Serrano has been buying such souvenirs, all of which in one way or another have to do with Donald Trump. The cake, for instance, came from Trump's 2005 wedding to Melania Knauss. There was also a fake dollar bill showing Hillary Clinton behind bars, autographed by Trump. In total, Serrano spent more than $100,000 … Read the full Story >>
Earlier this year, Meta decided to add a notification to images uploaded to its platforms that were made with AI. That rollout went poorly: Meta labeled images as "Made with AI" even if only small adjustments had been made to a photo with editing tools that incorporated AI, angering many creators..Meta later changed the label to 'AI Info.' Now the company is rethinking the … Read the full Story >>
Talks / Protest / Book Events / Screenings / and Beyond Tuesday, July 11 Ánde Somby Art Residency | Yoiking, 12-1 pm. Madison Square Park, 11 Madison Avenue, NY, NY Info Performances all week, hours vary Marlon Riggs & “No Regrets” | Disclosure, Performativity & Legacy, 6:30 pm.The 8th Floor, 17 West 17th Street, NY, NY Info Sketch Night at Society of Illustrators, with … Read the full Story >>
President Donald Trump's long-threatened tariffs against Canada and Mexico went into effect on March 4, igniting a trade war that will affect almost every American. Imports from Canada and Mexico are now to be taxed at 25%, with Canadian energy products subject to 10% import duties. The 10% tariff that Trump placed on Chinese imports in February was doubled to 20%. The move, noted … Read the full Story >>
For the first DART Book Prize Essay Contest, students in Dr. Anastasia Aukeman’s Integrative Seminar 2: Visual Culture course at Parsons School of Design, in the School of Art and Design History and Theory, submitted their critiques of the Beauty –Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial exhibition. First place for the afternoon section goes to Angela Yang. First place for the morning section as well as runners … Read the full Story >>
Birds have been in the news recently: This week we spotlighted the winning images of the 2024 Bird Photographer of the Year contest, including Canadian conservation photographer Patricia Homonylo's grand prize-winning image of 4,000 birds that died from colliding with buildings in Toronto. Meanwhile, National Geographic had advice on the best cameras for bird photography, and The New York Times had expert insights on … Read the full Story >>
This week we learned that Apple is acquiring Pixelmater, the Lithuania-based firm that makes popular Mac-based photo editing tools. Pixelmator said in a statement that there will be "no material changes to the Pixelmator Pro, Pixelmator for iOS, and Photomator apps at this time," but to stay tuned "for exciting updates to come." Fans of Pixelmator's apps, which are notably one-time purchases, unlike Adobe's … Read the full Story >>
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 >>
Halloween is fun. It's life that can be scary. This week we featured the winner of the Urban Wildlife Award in the 2021 Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition--Canadian photographer Gil Wizen's shot of a Brazilian wandering spider, one of the most venomous spiders in the world, which Wizen found under his bed (guarding its young) while on a trip to Ecuador. Once you … Read the full Story >>
Artificial intelligence-generated images are becoming harder to distinguish from real ones, and the potential for spreading misinformation is causing alarm, especially with the 2024 presidential campaign ramping up. As we noted this week, Google thinks it has a solution: The company is testing a tool called SynthID, which embeds a digital watermark on images. The watermark that can't be seen by the human eye … Read the full Story >>
Twitter's latest feature may sound familiar to you. The feature, called Fleets, lets you write text, post photos, videos, or add earlier tweets into a little visual info-nugget that disappears after 24 hours. So really it's a knockoff of Instagram Stories, which itself is a knockoff of Snapchat Stories. And speaking of Snapchat: That social-media platform is launching a new feature called Spotlight that … Read the full Story >>
Despite what you've been hearing recently, birds are real. The trending Birds Aren't Real movement, as The New York Times has explained, is an elaborate inside joke--"a Gen Z-fueled conspiracy theory" positing that birds don't exist and are really drone replicas installed by the U.S. government to spy on Americans. In any case, today we focus on real birds, from kestrels pink flamingos, that … Read the full Story >>
