THE BALTIMORE SUN Thursday August 3, 2023
Amos E. Badertscher Jr., a fine-art photographer who chronicled hustlers and drag queens in Baltimore’s neighborhoods and gay clubs during the 1960s and 1970s, died on July 24 after suffering fall in his Charles Village backyard, reports The Baltimore Sun. He was 86. “Amos was a part of emerging gay artists, and photographers in particular, who began showing their work more prominently after the end of the 1970s,” noted Beth Saunders, a photo curator at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. “Amos did not want to a part of mainstream and that was what excited him about his subjects.”
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The New York Times Thursday August 3, 2023
The Korean War broke out when a Soviet-backed, Communist North invaded the pro-American southern territory of the Korean Peninsula in 1950. Between 2 million and 3 million people — including 36,500 American troops — were estimated to have been killed before a truce was signed in July of 1953, notes The New York Times, which recently looked back at the Cold War conflict in pictures by photographers including David Douglas Duncan and a number of South Korean war photographers.
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TechCrunch Thursday August 3, 2023
Facebook has announced new video-related features ranging from editing to discovery to make the platform competitive with YouTube and TikTok. It is also renaming its “Watch” tab to “Video” to unify all its video experiences under one place, notes TechCrunch. Over the last few months, Meta has made an effort to make Reels a more popular video format across Facebook and Instagram. In March, for instance, Facebook expanded Reels’ limit from 60 seconds to 90 seconds per clip.
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Women Photograph Thursday August 3, 2023
Women Photograph has announced the recipients of its 2023 grants: The Women Photograph Project Grants of $5,000 have been awarded to Jean Jasper Gruis, Anique Jordan, Camille Farrah Lenain, Spandita Malik, and Dolores Medel. The Women Photograph + Leica Grant of $10,000 has been awarded to Farren van Wyk, whose project “Die lewe is nie reg vir my nie” explores South Africa’s gang culture and strives to “counter its perception as male violence and show deeper layers as it is a means of survival and brotherhood.”
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