What’s better than symmetry in photographs? Combining it with a little asymmetry, notes YouTuber Mike Smith in a new video. Smith explains how to achieve symmetry in landscape images—both horizontal and vertical symmetry. (If you’re struggling in your search for landscape symmetry, look for a body of water on a day with little wind, he advises.) Read the full Story >>
In 1980, photographer Wong Chung-Wai’s parents swam across Shenzhen Bay to flee mainland China and start a new life in Hong Kong. In 2020, Wong, like many others in Hong Kong, decided to leave the city after China introduced a national security law that triggered continuous crackdowns and threatened civil liberties in the former British colony, notes The Guardian. During the months before his departure he had wandered the city to create a visual imprint of those things he could not take with him. The result in his book Hong Kong After Hong Kong (GOST). Read the full Story >>
The average AI-generated food image is not quite there, notes Hannah Walhout at Eater. “In various corners of Reddit and Google Images, pizza slices and leaves overlap strangely or blend into each other, curries shimmer around the edges, turkeys have unusual legs in unusual places, and other supposed foods aren’t identifiable at all,” she writes. “On Adobe Stock, users may monetize AI-generated art, provided they have the rights to do so, and label their uploads as illustrations. Most of the platform’s photorealistic still lifes and tablescapes are passable, though a few veer into the grotesque.” Read the full Story >>
Taking place on Thursday, August 17, the LGBTQ+ Art, Material Culture & History auction at Swann Galleries is a testament to the growing interest in the newly defined area of collecting, notes the auction house. Photographs, an enduring favorite for the auction, are represented this year by work from David Wojnarowicz, Diane Arbus, Robert Mapplethorpe and Peter Hujar. Works of note include Wojnarowicz’s “Untitled (Buffaloes)" ($12,000-18,000); and Arbus’s “Two men dancing at a drag ball,” ($10,000-15,000). Read the full Story >>
