nofilmschool Tuesday June 27, 2023
The newly announced Apple Vision Pro, a virtual/augmented reality headset that Apple calls a spatial computer, has been getting lots of attention (in part because of its price). NoFilmSchool wonders if the headset may change the way we watch movies, noting that a film series called Monarch: Legacy of Monsters(think Godzilla and other monsters of that story universe) will be shot on Apple’s Spatial Video format. This will make it the first show to be captured for use on the VR/AR headset, notes NFS.
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Aperture Tuesday June 27, 2023
“Pictures are luckier, they are looser than words. Words have to fight harder to arrange themselves, to express that which in a photograph might be the mingling of order and accident, a strange convergence, a kind of grace.” So writes Rebecca Bengal in her newly released collection of essays on photography, Strange Hours: Photography, Memory, and the Lives of Artists (Aperture). In the book, Bengal considers the photographers who have defined our relationship to the medium, from Henry Horenstein to Justine Kurland. See also: Vogue.
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Nikon Rumors Tuesday June 27, 2023
In the not-too-distant past, Nikon was losing ground to competitors and hurting financially. But things are different now: Nikon is gaining market share thanks to its Z9 model—and even more so because of the new Z8, which, notes Nikon Rumors, has been very popular in Japan. In 2020, adds PetaPixel, Nikon held a paltry 2.5 percent market share in sales from the Japanese store BCN+R. Now, just a bit more than three years later, Nikon’s share has grown to 12.9 percent, surpassing OM Digital to take third place among all major camera manufacturers.
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David Schonauer Tuesday June 27, 2023
As we've noted previously, 2023 has bee the year of Richard Avedon. The landmark exhibition "Avedon 100" at New York's Gagosian gallery celebrated the centenary of the late American photographer's
birth by asking notables like Cindy Crawford and Spike Lee pick their favorite Richard Avedon images, and in doing so it has put into focus once again on his artistry across a number of … Read the full Story >>
