THE VERGE Thursday May 19, 2022
The European Union aims to begin enforcing the Digital Markets Act (DMA) in spring 2023, notes The Verge. The antitrust legislation introduces a new set of rules to curb the power of Big Tech. In accordance with the DMA, so-called gatekeepers including Meta, Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon will have three months to declare their status, followed by an up to two-month wait period to receive confirmation from the EU. This wait period, coupled with the delayed DMA enforcement, could mean that we won’t start seeing any real battles between the EU and Big Tech until the end of 2023. Read the full Story >>
ARTnews Thursday May 19, 2022
Photographer Deana Lawson is the winner of the 2022 Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize. The £30,000 (about $36,600) award is considered to be among the most important devoted to photography, notes Art News. Photographers Anastasia Samoylova, Gilles Peress, and Jo Ractliffe were shortlisted for this year’s award. Lawson, who received he Guggenheim Museum’s $100,000 Hugo Boss Prize in 2020, is best known for her portraits of Black men and women often posed in domestic settings. Read the full Story >>
Spectrum News 1 Thursday May 19, 2022
A judge has dismissed the defamation portion of a lawsuit filed by a Los Angeles-based photographer against actress Hillary Duff. The photographer, Darryl Wilkins, alleged that he was slandered and libeled during an episode of The Wendy Williams Show that dealt with his 2020 encounter with actress Hillary Duff in a park. Wilkins claimed he was taking pictures of children playing football to test out his new camera gear when the actress approached him and asked him to stop. She later posted a video of the encounter at Instagram. Williams called his actions “creepy.” Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Upinder S. Kalra cited free-speech grounds in dismissing the case. PetaPixel has more. Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Thursday May 19, 2022
On April 25, 1972, Polaroid owner and inventor Edwin H. Land introduced the SX-70 instant camera to the world and changed the art of photography. Land himself declared the camera to be a turning
point for the medium when he first showed it to some 3,000 people gathered at a Polaroid warehouse in Needham, Massachusetts, for the company's annual meeting. Fifty years later its … Read the full Story >>
