THE ART NEWSPAPER Thursday September 15, 2022
Susan Sontag once said that her seminal book On Photography was not about photography, but rather “the way we are now,” notes The Art Newspaper. Sontag “was prescient in her understanding of photography’s role in contemporary life,” says Mia Fineman, a photography curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, who has contributed to the first ever illustrated edition of Sontag’s 1977 book, now released by the Folio Society. Sontag’s ideas remain as resonant in 2022 as the day she wrote them, declares TAN. Read the full Story >>
The Guardian Thursday September 15, 2022
With the death of Queen Elizabeth II on September 8, news sites (including The Atlantic) have been looking back on her life and long reign. The Guardian goes further, talking to five photographers about what it was like to capture the monarch. “The Queen had a very special understanding of what she meant to people and the power she had. That’s why she always dressed in bright colors – so she could be seen. She was there to do a job and she got on with it – she wasn’t there to have her photo taken,” recalls Chris Jackson, Getty Images royal photographer. Read the full Story >>
THE VERGE Thursday September 15, 2022
With ad revenue declining, Meta is bringing more paid features to Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The Verge reports that Meta is setting up a new division called “New Monetization Experiences” — the company’s first serious foray into building paid features across its main social apps. Meta isn’t alone in pushing toward more paid features, adds TV: TikTok started testing paid subscriptions for creators earlier this year, Twitter has paid Super Follows, and Discord makes its money entirely from its Nitro subscription. Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Thursday September 15, 2022
Everyone is excited about DALL-E, the AI tech that translates words into pictures. But one day soon you might have another option. Incredible as it might seem, researchers are developing technology
that can turn a person's thoughts into photographic images. Researchers at Radboud University in the Netherlands recently published an article in the journal Nature detailing the results from an
experiment in which they … Read the full Story >>
