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David Schonauer Monday September 11, 2023
Patricia Caulfield, a top editor at Modern Photography magazine in the 1960s who successfully sued Andy Warhol for misappropriating a picture she made of hibiscus blossoms and then left the
publication to become an acclaimed nature photographer, died on July 16 in Manhattan. She was 91. Caulfield became Modern Photography's executive editor in about 1964. Her photo of an arrangement of
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ACTION NETWORK Monday September 11, 2023
A Michael Jordan game-used jersey may be the center of an elaborate scam in which fraudsters created a fake foundation in a dead photographer's name in order to get the collectible falsely authenticated, the Action Network reports. The Tony Ranze Foundation provided the research material used in the authentication of the jersey, which if legitimate, could have boosted its value from its sale price of nearly $27,000 to more than a million dollars, sources said. But the Tony Ranze Foundation isn't real. Ranze was the director of photography for Florida’s Lakeland Ledger with photo credits in AFP and Getty. He died in 2006.
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The Athletic Monday September 11, 2023
Ken Griffey Jr. retired as a baseball great in 2010, and for a second act he took up sports photography, reports The Athletic: He’s photographed Monday Night Football games, a variety of MLB events — including this year’s Home Run Derby in Seattle — and an IndyCar event for ESPN in 2016. Most recently he turned up at a soccer match behind Inter Miami (and its star Lionel Messi) and Nashville SC. Griffey’s former Seattle Mariners teammate Randy Johnson also turned to photography following his playing career, notes TA.
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The Washington Post Monday September 11, 2023
Taking their lead from Elon Musk’s X/Twitter, social media companies are receding from their role as watchdogs against political misinformation, abandoning their most aggressive efforts to police online falsehoods in a trend expected to profoundly affect the 2024 presidential election, notes The Washington Post. Mass layoffs at Meta and other major tech companies have gutted teams dedicated to promoting accurate information online, adds The Post, while an aggressive legal battle over claims that the Biden administration pressured social media platforms to silence certain speech has blocked a key path to detecting election interference.
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