THE ART NEWSPAPER Friday July 14, 2023
The Photography Show from the Association of International Photography Art Dealers (AIPAD) will mark its 43rd edition in April 2024 with a return to the Park Avenue Armory in New York. “The Park Avenue Armory has always been the favorite venue of our members, collectors and curators,” AIPAD executive director Lydia Melamed Johnson said in a statement, adding that the organization has “evolved post-Covid with a renewed sense of optimism and vitality.” The event is the longest-running fair devoted specifically to the medium, notes The Art Newspaper.
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Bob Brown Foundation Friday July 14, 2023
One of Tasmania’s most renowned wilderness photographers, Rob Blakers, was arrested by police after refusing to leave a critically endangered Swift Parrot habitat that is being destroyed in Tasmania’s Eastern Tiers due to logging. Blakers has spent the past three summers photographing swift parrots in southern Tasmania and the Eastern Tiers, notes DIY Photography. “I spent two full days last week urgently attempting to contact Forestry Tasmania. There was no response to my calls,” Blakers notes at the Bob Brown Foundation.
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PetaPixel Friday July 14, 2023
Shutterstock is paying online influencers and photographers who generate images with artificial intelligence to promote its image generator, reports PetaPixel. The photo stock library launched its AI image generator using DALL-E’s technology earlier this year; now it appears Shutterstock is attempting to attract customers by paying photographers with large Instagram followers to talk up the tool. Among them: Tim Tadder who has enthusiastically embraced AI and recently offered a post promoting Shutterstock’s image generator. The post is marked with “Paid partnership.”
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David Schonauer Friday July 14, 2023
In recent years, cities, towns and small communities across the world replaced orange-tinged high-pressure sodium bulbs with more energy-efficient, whiter and brighter LED lights. The new lamps
consume up to 90 percent less energy, but there's a downside: The rise of LEDs is also increasing light pollution that obscures the night sky, noted The Washington Post recently. Agencies and
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