PetaPixel Friday August 11, 2023
Stills is a new, invitation-only photo licensing platform that offers a curated selection of authentic, design-centered, on-trend photos instead of what it characterizes as the dry, boring imagery found on other stock sites, notes PetaPixel. The service comes from FM, the parent company of FilmSupply, Musicbed, Trust, and Label. “Designers are tired of spending their valuable time sifting through lackluster photos. Stills is the answer,” FM CEO Daniel McCarthy says. “Great, authentic photography is central to great design.”
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David Schonauer Friday August 11, 2023
This week we took note of a disappointed bride who recently posted about how bad her wedding photos were: The pictures, she said made her want to "cry every single day," and that the photographer
wasn't returning her calls. (One commenter suggested that the poor quality of the photos had to do with a malfunctioning SD card.) Her post garnered some 2.6 million views. … Read the full Story >>
daily dot Thursday August 10, 2023
Another bride wants a refund from a wedding photographer. But this time the story isn’t about the quality of the photos, notes Daily Dot. A wedding photographer recently noted at Reddit that the bride in question asked for a full refund after the photographer's assistant slept with the groom. Posting at the Wedding Photography subreddit, the photographer explained that the second shooter had been hired online to help with a wedding earlier this summer. Everything seemed “business as usual” until the photographer received an email from the bride after the wedding.
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AnOther Thursday August 10, 2023
The desire to obsessively self-document is often understood as a contemporary phenomenon, driven by the need to forge compelling visual identities on social media. But long before selfies entered the lexicon, notes AnOther, there was the “flamboyant, chameleonic” Van Leo, the pseudonym of Levon Boyadjian, an Armenian-Egyptian photographer who had a booming photography practice in Cairo from the 1930s who took over 400 shape-shifting self-portraits throughout his life. His work on on view at the Hammer Museum in LA through Nov. 5.
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