PetaPixel Wednesday April 26, 2023
Kodak Alaris — a different brand from the perhaps more well-known Eastman Kodak — is to be sold by its owner, the UK’s Pension Protection Fund. Kodak Alaris, a spinoff company of the original Eastman Kodak Compan, focuses on equipment including film, photo paper, and printing and was separated as a new business from the larger Kodak brand when the company filed for bankruptcy in 2012, notes PetaPixel. (Kodak owed the UK Kodak Pension Plan $2.8 billion at the time.) The sale may affect film availabilities, adds The Phoblographer.
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npr Wednesday April 26, 2023
At the onset of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the world witnessed a massive exodus of refugees from the country. Since then, more than 8 million Ukrainians have registered as refugees in Europe and another 5.3 million have become internally displaced. But these statistics reflect only a small part of the struggle civilians are going through, notes NPR, which features a visual report from with images by photojournalist Anastasia Taylor-Lind. For most refugees, displacement has become a chronic condition of uncertainty and precarity.
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The Daily Beast Wednesday April 26, 2023
Is this the future of politics? Shortly after President Joe Biden announced his 2024 re-election campaign Tuesday, the Republican National Committee released a video attack ad created with artificial intelligence, notes The Daily Beast. The GOP described the ad as an “AI-generated look into the country’s possible future” if Biden is re-elected; it includes depictions of imagined events including a Chinese invasion of Taiwan and San Francisco being shut down due to crime, adds Mashable. Democrats and pundits “were largely puzzled and also unimpressed,” by the ad, comments The Hill.
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The New York Times Wednesday April 26, 2023
Jessica Burstein, a photographer who in extended assignments captured three quintessentially New York institutions — the Law & Order television franchise, the construction of the new Yankee Stadium and the restaurant and celebrity hangout Elaine’s — died on April 11 at her home in Manhattan, reports The New York Times. She was 76. In 1992, Burstein became the official photographer at Elaine’s, hangout of politicians, writers, athletes and actors. Among her most famous shots from the restaurant: a 2002 photo of Sex and the Cityauthor Candace Bushnell vamping for the camera.
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