ARTnews Monday January 15, 2024
Actor Ben Whishaw will unite with director Ira Sachs to make an “intimate” movie about photographer Peter Hujar. who until his death from AIDS in 1987 was at the forefront of Manhattan’s downtown cultural scene, notes Art News. The untitled film follows Passages, the acclaimed 2023 film Sachs made with Whishaw. The Hujar film will add to the photographer's growing reputation: Best known now for his black-and-white portraits, he was widely overlooked by mainstream culture during his lifetime.
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CNN Monday January 15, 2024
In 1987, the late photographer Mary Ellen Mark told The New York Times that her book Falkland Road, Prostitutes of Bombay was “meant almost as a metaphor for entrapment, for how difficult it is to be a woman.” The book, recently reissued with more than 70 of Mark’s images, was internationally lauded for spotlighting the plight of the sex workers, many of whom were peddled by pimps and madams, beaten and vulnerable to diseases, notes CNN, which tells the story behind the landmark publication.
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The New York Times Monday January 15, 2024
Traditional wedding photographers provide couples with preview images within a week of their event, and they’ll have to wait up to six weeks for their full photo gallery and as long as four months for the video. But many brides now are also hiring wedding content creators who typically deliver hundreds of shareable photos and videos on social media within 24 hours of a wedding. A 2023 Instagram poll of more than 2,600 brides and grooms conducted by Joy, a digital wedding planning platform, found that 94 percent of couples said that social media played a big part in the planning of their wedding.
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Variety Monday January 15, 2024
Calvin Klein has run afoul of censors in the UK with an ad featuring singer-songwriter and dancer FKA Twigs wrapped (loosely) in a denim shirt. The UK’s Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) banned the ad, saying the image, by photo duo Mert Ala and Marcus Piggott, “placed viewers’ focus on the model’s body rather than on the clothing being advertised.” The ban came after two people complained that the images were “overly sexualized,” notes Variety. FKA Twigs herself says the ad shows a “beautiful strong woman of color,” notes Swirlster.
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