DP Review Thursday March 2, 2023
Marking the 60th anniversary of the James Bond film franchise—and an exhibition called “Photographs from the James Bond Archive” at the Leica Gallery in London—Leica is bringing out a limited special Leica D-Lux 7 007 Edition camera. The new model, which features the Bond “gun barrel” design on the lens cap and is emblazoned with the 007 logo on top, is limited to 1,962 units worldwide (1962 being the year the first Bond movie, Dr. No, was released). The camera also comes packaged with handgrip, wrist strap and, naturally, a camera shoulder holster, notes DP Review.
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World Photography Organization Thursday March 2, 2023
The World Photography Organization has announced the finalists and shortlists of its 2023 Professional competition, including American photographer Martin Broen’s shot of a high-flying mobula ray. More than 180,000 images were entered in the Professional competition this year—the highest number of entries on record. The contest has announced three finalists and projects per category. The winner will be announced on April 13 and will be part of an exhibition of winners at London’s Somerset House from April 14 to May 1. See also: CNN.
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New York Daily News Thursday March 2, 2023
Photographer Cheryl Miller is perhaps best known for her 1980 image “Sunglass Corner,” a black-and-white photo of several Black men standing outside a Harlem store—a moment evoking what the New York Daily News calls a “long-past, simpler time uptown.” Now Miller has filed a copyright infringement claim against an artist who allegedly replicated her photograph as a painting. The artist, Nate Ladson, says his seemingly near-identical painting is not based on Miller’s photograph, adds PetaPixel.
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David Schonauer Thursday March 2, 2023
The era of artificial intelligence has arrived and there's no going back. But where are we headed? Recently we noted that Getty Images is suing the company behind Stability AI for "brazen" theft of
images in order to train its image generating technology. Meanwhile, Google suffered an embarrassment--and a stock-price plunge--when its newly introduced AI-powered search engine spit out an
erroneous answer about an … Read the full Story >>
