PetaPixel Thursday December 23, 2021
Citing the growth of the creator economy and the rise of sales through social channels, Adobe has launched Creative Cloud Express, a new platform designed for fast turnaround and is aimed at those who have never used Adobe products before. “Adobe has clearly decided that it has reached critical mass with its professional suite of applications and has found a way to expand its customer base to anyone who wants to create something,” notes PetaPixel. The company says the power of Photoshop, Lightroom, Illustrator, and other professional apps will exist in Creative Cloud Express, but without the complication. Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Thursday December 23, 2021
Tom Stoddart. Hiro. June Newton. Those were some of the notable names in photography who died in 2021. Today we remember them, along with others whose passings we noted at Pro Photo Daily over the
past year, including Daniel Wolf. Hiro, Alice Rose George, Mick Rock, Corky Lee, Nick Oza, Edward Keating, George Butler, Naomi Rosenblum, George Forss, Barbara Ess, Bill Beebe, Peter C. … Read the full Story >>
Houston Chronicle Wednesday December 22, 2021
Fred Baldwin, a photographer and educator who along with photographer Wendy Watriss founded Houston FotoFest in 1983, died on December 17, notes the Houston Chronicle. Baldwin and Watriss got the idea for the citywide biennial photography event after attending Les Rencontres d’Arles, the important photography festival in France. FotoFest also grew out of frustration with a system in which photographic exhibitions were rigid and small-scale. Baldwin told the Chronicle in 2019, “We wanted to give back because we knew things. But it was also an act of anger.” Read the full Story >>
Smithsonian Wednesday December 22, 2021
Smithsonian weighs in with its take on the best photo books of the year. On the list: Tim Flach’s most recent book, Birds, which features vividly colorful images of birds inspired by bird illustrators of the Victorian era like John J. Audubon. There’s also Kristin Bedford’s Cruise Night, a five-year photo project about the Los Angeles Mexican-American lowrider community, and Rahim Fortune’s I can’t stand to see you cry, the photographer’s reaction to the pandemic, the Black Lives Matter protests and Fortune’s father’s illness and eventual passing. Read the full Story >>
