ARTnews Monday July 10, 2023
The market for contemporary photography has cratered, sending many camera-toting market stars crashing down to earth, notes Daniel Sallick, board chair of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C.. Now, he suggests at Art News, would be a good time for collectors to jump in. “Markets tend to overcorrect, which is what I suspect is happening with contemporary photography today. But a medium that has added so much to the world—and the history of art—deserves a renaissance,” he adds.
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The New York Times Monday July 10, 2023
“Before I had a name for what ailed my body, I thought of myself as dehydrated and out of shape,” writes Sara J. Winston, an artist and the photography program coordinator at Bard College. “At that time,” she adds, “I looked at chronic illness as an outsider.” That changed in 2014, when Winston learned she had relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis. At The New York Times, she documents her life now — a life of chronic care — in words and photographs. “My body is a clock,” she notes.
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DP Review Monday July 10, 2023
Phase One has announced the XC, a $62,490 150-megapixel medium format camera with a 23mm f/5.6 fixed lens. Phase One's previous medium format cameras, the XF and XT cameras, have had removable digital backs as well as interchangeable lenses, but the XC is more akin to a compact camera, notes DP Review. The XC has two digital back options: the IQ4 150MP and the IQ4 150MP Achromatic for black-and-white photography. The 53.4 x 40mm (essentially 645) format delivers images that are 47-percent bigger than the 44 x 33mm medium format sensors used by Ricoh, Hasselblad and Fujifilm.
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David Schonauer Monday July 10, 2023
As we noted last week, Meta's Threads app for real-time, public conversations surged after its introduction last week. By Friday, as CNN noted, the app had surpassed 70 million sign-ups and "upended
the social media landscape." Billed as a "Twitter killer," the new app has rattled Twitter, which threatened legal action against Meta. Twitter sent Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg a letter that accused the … Read the full Story >>
