PetaPixel Wednesday November 23, 2022
The American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP) has combined with the North American Nature Photography Association (NANPA) to form a new photography association, notes PetaPixel. The new group will have the ASMP name and will formally launch in January of 2023. The NANPA Board of Trustees, which has focused on nature photography, will operate within ASMP and have its own dedicated funding. ASMP has promised “innovative new benefits.” One NANPA member told PPD the news came as a surprise, since “there has been no discussion of the matter within the membership.”
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David Schonauer Wednesday November 23, 2022
The photography habit can be powerful, and expensive: The Los Angeles Times recently reported that a professor at the University of California at Irvine spent $400,000 of state funds to buy himself
cameras and lenses to fuel what seems to have been a photographic side hustle or serious hobby. Frank P.K. Hsu, chair of the department of neurological surgery at the Cal Irvine medical … Read the full Story >>
VICE Tuesday November 22, 2022
Bias in AI systems—whether it’s facial recognition failing more often on Black people or AI image generators like DALL-E reproducing racist and sexist stereotypes—has been well documented. Now there’s a free tool that enables users to see what that bias looks like in the real world. The tool, Stable Diffusion Bias Explorer, lets anyone query a popular text-to-image system, allowing people to see for themselves how certain word combinations produce biased results. Designed by an AI ethics researcher, the tool is hosted on HuggingFace, a popular Github-like platform that hosts machine learning projects, notes Vice.
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pocket Tuesday November 22, 2022
At the end of the 19th century, Parisian police officer Alphonse Bertillon devised a new system of crime scene photography, inviting detectives, jurors, and newspaper readers into scenes of violence and private interiors never before so starkly revealed. Previously, detective work had relied on first-person testimony over circumstantial evidence. The camera, used sporadically since the mid-1800s to take portraits of alleged criminals, was, in Bertillon’s new system, meant to usher in a new era of objectivity in forensics. But were the pictures also art?
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