THE MIT PRESS READER Tuesday August 15, 2023
Photography is important because of how it works — not only as an artistic medium but also as a way of knowing. So notes author Jerry L. Thompson in his book Why Photography Matters, from MIT Press. The MIT Press Reader presents an excerpt. “Studio artists today use cameras to generate the pictorial raw materials they need in order to create works expressive of their individual talents and personal visions,” writes Thompson. “For a studio artist, the camera is a source of material. The artist provides the form, shaping what the camera supplies into what the viewer sees as a work of art.”
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David Schonauer Tuesday August 15, 2023
Gen Z is crazy about Remini, an AI-powered photo app that people are using to transform casual smartphone photos into pro-quality headshots. Now the most popular free app at the Apple Store, Remini
has gone viral: The #Remini hashtag currently has over 1.4 billion views on TikTok, with content creators asking why they should "pay for headshots when AI does them for free?" But … Read the full Story >>
THE ART NEWSPAPER Monday August 14, 2023
The Dallas Center of Photography closed on Aug. 4, due in part to financial challenges made worse by the pandemic, notes The Art Newspaper. Founded in 2009 as a for-profit organization focused on photo-based education, the DCP transitioned to non-profit status in 2019. Following the pandemic, the immediate plan was to downsize, but rents were too high in the city, notes the Dallas Morning News. “Another thing Dallas doesn’t have, and this is a very common complaint among nonprofits, is there’s no place for nonprofits to live,” says Executive Director Peter Poulides.
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KYTX Monday August 14, 2023
On a recently Wednesday, Autumn McElroy and Justice Cox were waiting in a Tyler, Texas, parking lot to meet each other for the first time. They were brought together on a blind date by the owner of a local photography business, Anita McElroy, who’d posted an advertisement on Facebook for people interested in a unique photoshoot, notes KYTX. McElroy decided to spice up her photo business with matchmaking out of a sense of romance—and savvy marketing. "There's a ton of photographers in in this area so we have to keep it fun, keep it unique," she says.
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