ARTnews Tuesday March 21, 2023
LaToya Frazier, acclaimed photographer and winner of a MacArthur “genius grant,” will have her biggest US survey to date at New York’s Museum of Modern Art in 2024. The show, which will open next May, will include a range of photographic installations made over the past two decades, notes Art News. Many of Frazier’s works have powerfully broached vital issues related to class, labor, race, and gender, touching on how oppression often works in unseen ways that extend across multiple generations.
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THE VERGE Tuesday March 21, 2023
The “Space Zoom” feature of Samsung phones allows users to take incredibly detailed photos of the moon. But a recent Reddit post showed in stark terms just how much computational processing is involved, notes The Verge. The resulting images are “fake,” declares TV, with the caveat that our definition of photographic fakery is evolving pretty quickly these days. Reddit user u/ibreakphotos created an intentionally blurry photo of the Moon, displayed it on a computer screen, and then photographed this image using a Samsung S23 Ultra. The phone added details that simply weren’t present before.
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The New York Times Tuesday March 21, 2023
Twenty years ago, photojournalist Moises Saman witnessed the opening “shock and awe” salvos of the United States invasion of Iraq from the rooftop of the Palestine Hotel in Baghdad. “It was not my first war as a photographer, but it was the first time I had experienced bombardment in a densely populated urban center,” Saman writes at The New York Times. Saman notes that as he continued covering the war—“driven almost entirely by the demands of the daily news”—he began to learn the limits of his trade. Read the full Story >>
PetaPixel Tuesday March 21, 2023
ChatGPT, the chatbot that has taken the world by storm, has until now only accepted text inputs. But the next-generation Chat GPT-4 will accept images as prompts too, its creator, OpenAI, has announced. “What this means in practice is that the AI chatbot will be able to analyze what is in an image. For example, it can tell the user what is unusual about the below photo of a man ironing his clothes while attached to a taxi,” explains PetaPixel.
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