PetaPixel Monday January 23, 2023
In early Jan., Adobe came under fire for language used in its terms and conditions that seemed to indicate that it could use photographers’ photos to train generative artificial intelligence systems. The company has denied that it was using peoples’ photos for such as purpose, notes PetaPixel. The language of the “Content analysis” section in Adobe’s Privacy and Personal Data settings says that by default, users give Adobe permission to “analyze content using techniques such as machine learning (e.g., for pattern recognition) to develop and improve our products and services.” TechCrunch calls the situation “complicated.”
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David Schonauer Monday January 23, 2023
A new front in the culture wars opened recently after actress Jamie Lee Curtis posted a photo on Instagram showing her home office furnished with "beautiful Pollack chairs" used in her film
"Everything Everywhere All at Once." But conservative pundits soon began focusing on a framed photo hanging on the office's wall. Created by artist Betsy Schneider, the 2003 photo, titled "The Tub,"
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Micael Widell Friday January 20, 2023
If winter is bringing you snow and you’re tempted to take up the challenge of shooting macro images of snowflakes, you’d do well to watch YouTuber Micael Widell’s new tutorial. Tip number one: Find the best snow. “In my experience, you want the kind of snow where it is swirling around a bit,” he says. Somehow, such conditions (with the temperature just a bit below freezing) produces nice flakes, Widell notes. You’re going to be out for a while, so dress warmly.
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macmillan Friday January 20, 2023
Celebrated journalist Janet Malcolm, who died in 2021, wrote about subjects including art, psychoanalysis and crime—topic’s, notes The New York Times,“that admitted of no easy truths, not even in the presence of facts.” Her final book Still Pictures: On Photography and Memory, may well be her most personal, assembling photographs and vignettes of her family, friends and childhood as an immigrant to America. “The past is a country that issues no visas,” Malcolm notes, though photographs provide a port on entry.
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