MIT Technology Review Thursday April 6, 2023
A number of artists and creators are generating nostalgic photographs of China with the help of AI, notes the MIT Technology Review, which features work by Zhang Haijun, a street photographer in Chongqing, created with text-to-image art generator Midjourney. Zhang pays more than $200 a year for Midjourney and uses it to generate retro photographs with different themes: rural weddings in the ’90s, physical laborers for hire waiting in the market, and Chongqing street fashion, recreating a fast-disappearing past.
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PetaPixel Thursday April 6, 2023
Last month, after DP Review announced it would cease operations on April 10 and eventually close, fans of the website scrambled to retain the site’s massive library of content before it was deleted.Such efforts, notes PetaPixel, led to the launch of Digicam Finder, which was designed to be a new source of the most complete and accurate digital camera data on the Internet. The site contains full specifications of more than 2,500 digital cameras dating back to 1994 and is searchable by several parameters.
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David Schonauer Thursday April 6, 2023
Shaina Feinberg feels awful about how she looks--an anguish that has consumed an incalculable amount of her life. She classifies her self-loathing as body dysmorphic disorder, a condition in which
people fixate on perceived flaws in their appearance, causing significant emotional distress, noted The New York Times, which recently featured Feinberg's short film "A Brief History of Hating My
Face." "Having B.D.D. has really … Read the full Story >>
The Guardian Wednesday April 5, 2023
Was Frenchman Louis Daguerre the real inventor of photography, or did an Englishman, William Henry Fox Talbot, get there first? An exhibition at Oxford University’s Bodleian Library makes the case for Fox Talbot. “[W]hat he alone really gave to photography is the idea of the negative, the reverse image, used to create more prints. He also worked out how to fix images,” Phillip Roberts, curator of photography at the Bodleian Library, tells The Guardian.
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