KICKSTARTER Monday March 13, 2023
Box cameras, also known as Afghan Box Cameras, have been around for over a hundred years, and there are still some in daily use today. Building one from scratch can be quite daunting, notes DIY Photography, but now there is the Instant Box Camera—a portable, lightweight box camera that’s available at Kickstarter as a DIY build kit. It features a built-in darkroom, allowing you to shoot and develop your direct positive (or negative) prints right out of the box, so to speak.
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The Washington Post Monday March 13, 2023
A former naval officer, peanut farmer, and Georgia governor, Jimmy Carter served a single, notably purposeful but crisis-ridden term as president, notes The Washington Post, which recently featured a photo story looking back at Carter’s life. But in some respects politics was just the beginning of his career: After he was denied reelection in 1980, Carter dedicated himself to humanitarian causes, for which he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and other prizes.
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The New York Times Monday March 13, 2023
Andy Warhol’s portrait of Prince, based on a photograph by Lynn Goldsmith, is the subject of a long-running legal dispute now being debated by the Supreme Court. The outcome of the case could have significant implications for copyright law. But, notes The New York Times, art institutions are already worried about the effect the case may have on their own operations. Goldsmith contends that the case is about the licensing of creative work, not about exhibiting art, and that a ruling against her would transform copyright law into “all copying, no right.”
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CLAMP Monday March 13, 2023
Over the course of six years, artist Michal Chelbin gained unprecedented access to photograph male and female inmates in seven prisons across Ukraine and Russia. Not wanting to be influenced by knowledge of her subjects’ crimes, she focused on the complicated gaze of the prisoners, completing her sessions before asking about the details of anyone’s sentence—sometimes, notes the gallery, waiting hours for masks to be let down. The work is on view through May 6 in the exhibition “Michal Chelbin: Sailboats and Swans.”
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