PetaPixel Tuesday August 8, 2023
Although overshadowed by more recent, highly publicized court cases, the U.S. Supreme Court made a significant and controversial ruling that upheld North Carolina’s “Blackbeard’s Law” in March 2020, a decision that protected states from being sued for copyright infringement. The divisive law has now been repealed by the North Carolina state government, but, explains Jeremy Cray at PetaPixel, states can still steal your photos.
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CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN PHOTOGRAPHY PRIZE Tuesday August 8, 2023
Nadia Ettwein, Yassmin Forte, Maheder Haileselassie, Carlos Idun-Tawiah and Léonard Pongo are the winners of the 2023 Contemporary African Photography prize, an award presented annually since 2012 to five photographers. Each of their projects was created on the African continent, or engages with the African diaspora, notes The Guardian. Pongo wins the award for the second time this year for his project “Primordial Earth, 2023,” which he calls an “experimental documentary project” about the limitations of vision and mankind’s bias.
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engadget Tuesday August 8, 2023
Meta’s consumer-facing generative AI tools based on its new Llama 2 model may not be far off, notes Engadget, which reports that the company appears to be working on several new generative AI features for Instagram, including labels that allow creators to identify images “generated by Meta AI.” The news comes from reverse engineer Alessandro Paluzzi, who often teases unreleased features from Meta’s apps. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has noted that the company is “building a number of new products" using Llama "that will work across our services.”
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David Schonauer Tuesday August 8, 2023
She was a photojournalist, a war correspondent, a celebrated model and Surrealist muse, a woman who led an eventful 20th-century life that led her from the Student Arts League in New York to the
fashion houses of Paris and eventually into Nazi Germany, where she documented the collapse of the Third Reich. A new book, "Lee Miller: Photographer," brings together more than 100 of … Read the full Story >>
