The Washington Post Tuesday November 28, 2023
Stock image site Adobe Stock has announced it will crack down on AI-generated images that seem to show real, newsworthy events and take new steps to prevent its images from being used in misleading ways, notes The Washington Post. The move comes after The Post found that unlabeled AI images purporting depict the Israel-Hamas conflict and the war in Ukraine were being sold on the stock site. Last year, Adobe Stock became the first major stock image service to embrace AI-generated submissions.
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USA Today Tuesday November 28, 2023
Fashion photographer Terry Richardson, who has faced sexual misconduct allegations in the #MeToo era, is again being accused of sexual assault, notes USA Today. Spanish model Minerva Portillo is suing Richardson, Trump Model Management and the agency’s president Annie Veltri, alleging that Richardson, who has largely retreated from the public eye, assaulted her during a photo shoot and hen exhibited, published and sold photos from the incident. Portillo brought the lawsuit under New York’s Adult Survivors Act, which has provided victims a one-year window to file civil lawsuits even if the statutes of limitations in their cases had run out, adds The New York Times.
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David Schonauer Tuesday November 28, 2023
Who "takes" a photograph, when a photograph is taken? The person behind the camera, we often say. But what about the people in front of it? The new book "Collaboration: A Potential History of
Photography" uses "the lens of collaboration to challenge dominant narratives around photographic history and authorship," notes publisher Thames & Hudson. The authors of the book--both cultural
thinkers and practitioners of … Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Monday November 27, 2023
Larry Fink, best known for his black-and-white images of high-society soirees and his neighbors in rural Pennsylvania, died at him home on Nov. 25. Over his career, Fink published a number of books,
including the seminal 1984 collection "Social Graces." His work left a lasting impression on the photographic community, noted the International Center of Photography in 2015, when Fink received the
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