W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund Friday July 21, 2023
The W. Eugene Smith Fund is now accepting applications for its 44th annual Grant in Humanistic Photography, with a top prize of $30,000. An additional $10,000 grant will be awarded as a Fellowship, and one Finalist deemed worthy of special recognition will receive a $5,000 grant. The Smith Fund is also accepting applications for its 6th annual Eugene Smith Student Grant, which will honor the top student entry with a $3,000 grant. The Grant in Humanistic Photography goes to a photographer whose past work and proposed project follows the tradition of W. Eugene Smith’s dedicated compassion and humanistic approach to his subjects.
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David Schonauer Friday July 21, 2023
We've heard about AI-generated images fooling photo contest judges. This week we spotlighted a similar story, but with a twist: Suzi Dougherty, an actor who also works at the National Institute of
Dramatic Art in Sydney, Australia, made an iPhone photo of her son with two mannequins while visiting a Gucci exhibition. Happy with the photo, she entered it in a local competition run … Read the full Story >>
artnet news Thursday July 20, 2023
A pioneer of photography may have used urine to create his historical images. That, reports Artnet News, was one of the revelations a group of conservation experts from Brazil, Portugal, and the U.S. took away upon re-examining a series of what are believed to be among the oldest surviving photographic artifacts in the Americas, all created by the 19th-century artist, adventurer, and inventor Hercule Florence. Florence was one of the first to permanently fix images onto paper using chemicals, adds Artnet.
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The Guardian Thursday July 20, 2023
We’ve heard about AI-generated images fooling photo contest judges. Here’s a twist: Suzi Dougherty, an actor who also works at the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Sydney, Australia, made an iPhone photo of her son with two mannequins while visiting a Gucci exhibition. Happy with the photo, she entered it in a local competition run by Charing Cross Photo, a store in Sydney. She learned later that the image had been disqualified by judges who thought it was the work of artificial Intelligence, notes The Guardian.
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