Associated Press Wednesday November 2, 2022
Two suspected Chinese intelligence officers have been charged with attempting to obstruct a U.S. criminal investigation of Chinese tech giant Huawei, reports Associated Press. The defendants are accused of paying tens of thousands of dollars in digital currency, along with cash and jewelry, to a U.S. official they thought could provide them with information they could use to block the Huawei investigation. But the person was actually a double agent working for the FBI, reports Associated Press. The arrests came amid a U.S. crackdown on purported Chinese efforts to steal secrets, notes AP.
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International Center of Photography Wednesday November 2, 2022
The International Center of Photography has announced five new board members, including photographer Cindy Sherman. The others joining the board are Uzodinma Iweala, chief executive of the Africa Center in Harlem; gallerist Jane Corkin; philanthropist Robert Fribourg; and businessman Jonathan R. Furer. “I sensed that the organization, in asking me to participate, wanted to branch out from its more traditional roots and be seen in a broader sense of how photography is being used today,” Sherman told The New York Times.
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DP Review Wednesday November 2, 2022
Nikon’s newly announced 3.0 firmware update brings a significant number of new features to the company’s flagship mirrorless camera, the Z9. Among them: a High-Res Zoom mode when shooting 4K video. The feature, notes DP Review, starts by capturing oversampled 4K video from the full width of the 8.3K sensor and slowly crops in until it switches over to capturing the 4K APS-C 1.5x crop section of the sensor, effectively providing a 2x digital parfocal zoom without users ever having to ever touch the lens attached to the camera.
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David Schonauer Tuesday November 1, 2022
Lynsey Addario began taking war pictures when the United States invaded Afghanistan in 2001, only two-thirds of a century after Robert Capa documented the Spanish Civil War. But, noted The New York
Times recently, "to go from the exhibition of Capa's Spain photos at the International Center of Photography to the Addario show at the SVA Chelsea Gallery is to traverse not just time … Read the full Story >>
