ARTnews Wednesday December 20, 2023
Nancy Brooks Brody, a founding member of the artist collective fierce pussy and an artist whose work in photography and other mediums reflected on how one’s body navigates the world and the impressions they leave behind, died on December 8 in New York, reports Art News. She was 61 years old. A posting to fierce pussy’s website said Brody had been diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2021. The fierce pussy collective was formed in 1991 to counter the invisibility of women, lesbians in particular, with regards to HIV/AIDS and AIDS activism.
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The New York Times Wednesday December 20, 2023
In 2005, while Atom Moore was freelancing as a photographer’s assistant and digital technician in New York, he took a side job at the Swatch store in Times Square, even though, he admits, he wasn’t all that into watches. Today, notes The New York Times, Moore is a professional photographer who has been cited by the likes of the leading watch platform Hodinkee as one of the best watch photographers in the business. G-Shock, the cult watch model by the Japanese electronics company Casio, has included his work in a book from Rizzoli.
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Nature’s Best Photography Wednesday December 20, 2023
Spanish photographer Luis Vilariño is the overall winner of the 2023 Nature’s Best Photography contest for his image "The Volcano in the Clouds”—a fiery shot of Iceland's Geldigadalir volcano erupting in 2021. “While a squall covered Reykjanes peninsula, I ascended to the base of Geldigadalir,” notes Vilariño. “Magma rising from the mantle formed gigantic bubbles 30 to 50 feet in diameter, which burst when they reached the surface. Lava was emerging with unusual force, overflowing the drainage channel.”
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Videomaker Wednesday December 20, 2023
When you’re shooting the night sky, you’re working with low light levels, so you need to use a long exposure, even if your lens has a wide maximum aperture. There’s just one problem: The earth is spinning, which means that stars appear to constantly move across the sky. The Pentax K-1 II already had a built-in solution called Astrotracer type-1 that helped to counter our planet’s rotation. Now, notes Videomaker, a new firmware update adds two new modes for the Camera’s Astrotracer feature.
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