PetaPixel Monday January 15, 2024
Lexar is the first memory card manufacturer to bring support for the new, much faster CFexpress 4.0 standard to Type-A cards, the format that only Sony uses in its high-end mirrorless Alpha cameras, notes PetaPixel. In an announcement at CES 2024, the company said the new Type A cards will have a maximum read speed of 1,800 MB/s and a maximum write speed of 1,650 MB/s. Lexar will release the Professional CFexpress 4.0 Type-A card under its “Gold” series branding, although the timing for the release was not revealed.
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David Schonauer Monday January 15, 2024
Is AI the future of stock photography? Last week, Getty Images announced the launch of Generative AI by iStock, a text-to-image platform specifically designed to make stock photos. Powered by Nvidia
and marketed under the iStock brand, a subsidiary company of Getty, the new service is targeted small and medium businesses that need stock photos. This is the second foray into AI image generation … Read the full Story >>
BeauxArts Friday January 12, 2024
Elliott Erwitt, who died in 2023, was known for his transcendent images of canines. Now an exhibition in Lyon, France, is inviting people to view his work accompanied by their dogs, which frankly is a great idea. The Sucrière de Lyon will be welcoming guests with two and four legs on the evening of Jan.25 and Feb. 8. The retrospective features 215 black-and-white and color photos by Erwitt, who died on November 29.
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DAZED Friday January 12, 2024
There’s lots in store for ’24! Among the 10 upcoming exhibitions spotlighted by Dazed: “Weegee: Autopsy of the Spectacle,” at the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson in Paris (January 30 – May 19). Dazed calls Weegee’s work a tabloid “marriage of fun and fear.” There’s also “Irving Penn” at San Francisco’s de Young Museum (March 16 – July 21; a mashup of Francesca Woodman and Julia Margaret Cameron at London’s National Portrait Galley (March 21 – June 16) and Zanele Muholin at London’s Tate Modern (June 6 2024 – January 26.)
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