SF Camerawork Wednesday August 23, 2023
For 49 years, notes SF Camerawork, the organization has provided unique opportunities to photographers not otherwise found in commercial galleries or museum. On Sept. 30 the group will hold its annual benefit auction, featuring work from more than 50 artists, including Awoiska van der Molen, Wesaam Al-Badry, Nigel Poor, Lissette Solorzano, Kija Lucas, Lucas Foglia, and Chloe Sherman. (For collectors outside of the Bay Area, SF Camerawork is teaming with online platform Artsy to offer online bidding and viewing of its silent auction from September 15 to October 2. The auction proceeds directly support the artists as well as the organization.
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The Phoblographer Wednesday August 23, 2023
Many photographers found it easy to scoff at generative AI when it was being produced by programs with names like DALL-E and Midjourney. But now, Adobe’s Photoshop — the household name in photo editing that even non-photographers use as a verb — has not only joined the game, but has already had a hand in more than 900 million AI-generated images, notes The Phoblographer. Adobe seems to at least be pondering ethical questions about AI, adds writer Hillary Grigonis.
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Taschen Wednesday August 23, 2023
Photographer Stephen Wilkes found an extraordinary way to depict the passage of time with his day-to-night images—panoramas that capture famous landmarks and landscapes from dawn to dusk in a single frame. To create the images, Wilkes makes thousand of exposures, then edits and artfully blends them into one composition. The work has been published in a variety of magazines, and now it’s collected in a new book from Tashchen, appropriately titled Stephen Wilkes: Day To Night.
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Vogue Wednesday August 23, 2023
Linda, Cindy, Christy and Naomi are back. Or did they ever go away? In a “reunion for the ages,” four OG supermodels—so famous they've never needed second names—appear on the Sept. cover of British Vogue in an image photographed by Rafael Pavarotti. And as The New York Timesnotes, the image has generated “fervid enthusiasm” and “ignited a new debate about beauty standards.” According to a Vogue spokeswoman, there was only “minimal retouching and minimal lighting” on the photographs.
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