THE VERGE Thursday May 25, 2023
Canon is stepping into the vlogging camera arena, and it’s doing so with what The Verge calls “a quirky new point-and-shoot” aimed at the “set-it-and-forget-it crowd.” TV also calls the new $429.99 entry “an adorable little camera about the size of an extra-thick deck of cards that packs a fixed 19mm equivalent f/2.8 lens and marries it to a 20.9-megapixel one-inch-type sensor.” It records 4K at up to 30 fps and features an articulating screen, front and rear record buttons, stereo mics with a 3.5mm mic jack, a Micro HDMI port and digital image stabilization.
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Vogue Thursday May 25, 2023
One icon illuminates the work of another when Brooke Shields sits down with Vogue for a conversation marking the centennial of Richard Avedon’s birth. (See our previous post.) Shields, of course, has a special insight into Avedon, having been featured in a provocative 1980 ad campaign he shot for Calvin Klein. “I think Avedon was always very intent on capturing duality in his subjects, sort of a truth and a mask at the same time,” she says. See also: this video.
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teNeues Thursday May 25, 2023
Publisher teNeues says the book Eye Mama“is a photographic portfolio showcasing the mama narrative and the mama gaze, what female and non-binary photographers see when they look at, and into the home.” Based on work submitted to the EyeMama Project, a photography platform sharing a curated feed by photographers worldwide created by filmmaker and photographer Karni Arieli during the pandemic, the book brings together more than 200 images about caregiving, mothering and family.
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David Schonauer Thursday May 25, 2023
Every decade has its seer or sybil of style, a designer who, above all others, is able to divine and define the desires of women, and early in the 20th century, notes the Metropolitan Museum of Art,
this oracle of the mode was Paul Poiret, known in America as "The King of Fashion" and in France simply as Le Magnifique. In 1922, a time … Read the full Story >>
