The Photo Closer Tuesday September 6, 2022
Photographers Clare Perry and Viktor Koen will be presenting their work at the next Projections event, Sept. 7, at 7 p.m. You can join on Zoom. Perry is currently a freelance photographer and real estate-interior photographer. Koen serves on the faculty of the School of Visual Arts; his images have been seen in The NY Times, Wall Street Journal and Nature magazine. Projections is a once-a-month event (sometimes more) that showcases talented photographers of various disciplines from around the world. You can also view past presentations at the Projections YouTube channel. Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Tuesday September 6, 2022
The saga of photographer Lynn Goldsmith's copyright infringement battle with the Andy Warhol Foundation has been long and confusing. As we've noted previously, the legal drama concerns an image of the
rock star Prince, which Warhol used as basis for a series of paintings. In 2019, Judge John G. Koeltl of the Federal District Court in Manhattan ruled that Warhol's work did not infringe … Read the full Story >>
National Press Photographers Association Friday September 2, 2022
Marie D. De Jesús, the president of the National Press Photographers Association, has condemned violence by Puerto Rico Police Bureau officers directed at journalists in San Juan on the night of Aug. 25, noting that the “work of visual journalists is critical to our understanding of the electricity crisis in Puerto Rico” and the protests that have erupted because of it. “As president of NPPA, a photojournalist and as a Puerto Rican, I’m outraged to see videos of the Puerto Rico Police Bureau assaulting photojournalists exercising their constitutional right to document events and inform citizens,” she writes. Read the full Story >>
Science Alert Friday September 2, 2022
Everybody is talking about the new James Webb telescope photo of Jupiter, but Science Alert is astonished by a new photo of the moon taken by space photography enthusiast Andrew McCarthy — featured many times at PPD — in collaboration with planetary scientist Connor Matherne, The result of roughly two years of work and over 200,000 frames, the image, declares SA, is a moon masterpiece. The colors of the 174-megapixel photo may look fake, but they are technically the Moon's true hues. Read the full Story >>
