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David Schonauer Thursday June 15, 2023
"The strange, discomfiting photographs and videos of the Finnish artist Iiu Susiraja push so many buttons that her provocative exhibition at MoMA PS1 should have been staged in an elevator." So notes
The New York Times, describing what it calls Susiraia's "dizzying array of contemporary body-image issues," including fat shaming, self-loathing, self-love and sex. Meanwhile, photographer Abbie
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KICKSTARTER Wednesday June 14, 2023
Here’s a new way to journey into the world of pinhole photography: Jollylook, a group of Ukrainian instant photography enthusiasts, has launched a Kickstarter campaign for the Jollylook Square Pinhole camera. What you get is a DIY kit allowing you to build a pinhole camera that uses Instax square instant film. Jollylook got its start with a cardboard folding instant film camera in 2017, which it followed up with the Jollylook Auto in 2020, and the Jollylook Pinhole Camera DIY kit last year, notes PetaPixel.
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CNN Wednesday June 14, 2023
In 1977, photographer Terry O’Neill captured what many believe to be one of the greatest celebrity portraits of the 20th century — a shot of Faye Dunaway, poolside at the Beverly Hills Hotel, on the morning after she won the Best Actress Oscar for her film Network. On the occasion of a retrospective at New York’s Fotografiska museum titled “Stars,” CNN looks back at the making of the famous image and explains why it became iconic. Robin Morgan, the former editor of the Sunday Times Magazine in London, calls it “honest and alluring.”
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PetaPixel Wednesday June 14, 2023
Recently compiled data shows that images generated from artificial intelligence are performing better than photographs on Adobe Stock, notes PetaPixel. Stock Performer, an analytic website for stock photographers, revealed in a recent blog post that the average revenue per image per month (RPI/m) for AI images is four-and-a-half times bigger than photos or any other format. Adobe Stock is currently the only major stock website accepting AI image submissions from contributors, adds PP.
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