THE VERGE Tuesday January 31, 2023
The already-contentious relationship between AI and the creative industry might soon get even more complicated thanks to a new service that can completely remove watermarks from images, notes The Verge. The Watermark Remover.iotool, offered by Pixelbin.io, removes identifiable watermarks with a single click and has sparked conversations surrounding copyright protections since debuting last year. While similar tools exist, Watermark Remover.io is free to use and available on the web and as an Android app.
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By David Schonauer Tuesday January 31, 2023
As the director of photography for The New York Times Magazine, Kathy Ryan is responsible for shaping the publication's photographic identity by, among other things, commissioning the photographers
whose work appears inside the magazine and on its cover. "It's a weekly magazine, and the stories just keep coming," she notes. "A lot of our creative problem solving is at an accelerated pace." Ryan
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artsy Monday January 30, 2023
A golden rule of collecting any medium remains true for fashion photography: "Follow your own eye and intuition,” declares Artsy, which has tips on collecting fashion imagery from Nicola Erni, an investor who has built one of the world’s most prominent collections of work by Richard Avedon, Paolo Roversi, Irving Penn and Mario Testino. Erni’s collection also also features newer artists including Hassan Hajjaj, Erik Madigan Heck, Nadine Ijewere, Tyler Mitchell and Harley Weir.
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CNN Monday January 30, 2023
"Every shot we get in the Arctic is a battle. We push our limits; we feel alive by doing it,” says photographer Florian Ledoux. Famous for aerial photography, especially his images of icy scenes in the Arctic, Ledoux knows an essential truth about wildlife photography, notes CNN: It is always done on nature's terms and so requires icy patience. Ledoux has spent the last two winters on the Arctic sea ice, filming scenes for the BBC's nature documentary series Frozen Planet and the Disney film Polar Bear.
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