Baby Center Wednesday October 19, 2022
Stock agencies and photographers take note: A new study shows that three out of four stock stock photos of sleeping babies show infants in environments with known risk factors for sudden unexpected infant death. The study, by Baby Center, analyzed hundreds of images available on stock photography sites including Getty Images, iStock, and Shutterstock. The most common problem with stock photos: Depicting babies with objects in their cribs, such as blankets and stuffed animals.
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David Schonauer Wednesday October 19, 2022
Everywhere you go, it seems, people are watching. One of them is a tech-savvy Belgian artist named Dries Depoorter, who uses open street camera footage cross-referenced with Instagram influencers'
posts to show the unfiltered backstory behind posed photographs. Depoorter's project, called "The Follower," provides "a lesson in the artifice of social media and the ubiquity of surveillance," noted
The New York Times recently. It's … Read the full Story >>
DIYPhotography Tuesday October 18, 2022
The era of the DSLR has drawn nearer to a close as manufactures discontinue lenses for the products. DIY Photography notes that Sigma has discontinued 18 DSLR lenses, while Tamron has done away with 22. “The death of the DSLR has long been vaunted, and even after the appearance of the RF and Z mirrorless systems, it still sees signs of life. But dedicated lens manufacturers might finally have killed it off,” adds PetaPixel.
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Camera Work Tuesday October 18, 2022
Patrick Demarchelier, one of the most acclaimed fashion photographers in history, passed away in March 2022. Now, for the first time since his death, his work is on view in an exhibition. The show, at the Camera Work gallery in Berlin (through Nov. 19), was conceived together with Demarchelier, who provided the gallery with what it calls “unprecedented insights” into his archive, including his iconic images of supermodels Cindy Crawford, Linda Evangelista, Naomi Campbell and Christy Turlington.
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