The New York Times Tuesday November 16, 2021
Facebook plans to shut down its decade-old facial recognition system this month, deleting the face scan data of more than one billion users. The move, notes The New York Times, effectively eliminates a feature that has fueled privacy concerns, government investigations, a class-action lawsuit and regulatory woes. A spokesman for Meta, Facebook’s newly named parent company, said the change was being made because of “many concerns about the place of facial recognition technology in society.” Read the full Story >>
Natural Landscape Photography Awards Tuesday November 16, 2021
Eric Bennett is the top winner of the first annual Natural Landscape Photography Awards for a portfolio of images that, he writes, “strives to show people the value of wilderness.” The new competition was organized by photographers Matt Payne, Tim Parkin, Alex Nail, and Rajesh Jyothiswaran “to promote landscape photographers who strive for realism and authenticity in their images” and celebrate work in which "post-processing is applied in a way that remains true to the scene experienced,” notes Fstoppers. Read the full Story >>
ARTnews Tuesday November 16, 2021
New York financier Bennett J. Goodman has gifted a collection of civil rights movement–era photography worth $10 million to Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania. The collection will be housed at the college’s Kirby Art Center. The gift includes more than 1,600 images taken by photographers such as John Rous and Robert S. Oaks between the 1950s and 1980s. Among the events pictured in these photographs are race riots across the U.S. in 1967 and the Wounded Knee occupation in 1973. Goodman, who serves as a trustee at the Whitney Museum in New York, amassed the collection with his wife Meg over the course of a decade. Read the full Story >>
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Wonderful Machine Tuesday November 16, 2021
As a result of the COVID-19 travel bans, news outlets have been sharing stories that offer their audience a feel of global connectedness. Over the last year and a half, The New York Times has produced
a weekly feature, The World Through a Lens, in which readers can virtually tour the world through the eyes of photographers. Istanbul-based Bradley Secker connected with the publication … Read the full Story >>
