CNN Friday February 16, 2024
Nearly two decades ago, photographer David LaChapelle staged apocalyptic scenes for the pages of “Vogue Italia” — images, notes CNN, that nearly became his final editorial shoot. The series was inspired by a number of hurricanes that tore through the Gulf of Mexico, two of which reach the Florida coast. Shot at a Universal Studios movie set, the fashion work — an early allusion to climate change — became controversial after Hurricane Katrina stuck New Orleans in 2006. “Some people thought that they (the photographs) were exploitive,” LaChapelle says.
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The Guardian Friday February 16, 2024
A prestigious portrait competition in Australia that is open to photographers and other artists will allow AI images to be entered this year, reports The Guardian Australia. Rule changes were made for the 2024 Brisbane Portrait Prize (BPP) to allow entries “completed in whole or in part by generative artificial intelligence” so long as the artwork is original and “entirely completed and owned outright” by the artist. Organizers defended the move, arguing art is not stagnant and should reflect societal change.
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British Journal of Photography Friday February 16, 2024
For the past eight years, Russian photographer Nikita Teryoshin has been looking at what the British Journal of Photography calls “the chilling business of conflict.” Teryoshin has been photographing arms fairs—events in which countries go window shopping for weapons. He visited at least 17 fairs for his project “Nothing Personal – The Back Office of War,” a series of flash-heavy images in which the weapons command more attention than people in attendance. The work is now being published by GOST Books.
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David Schonauer Friday February 16, 2024
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has confirmed what his company had already admitted: During his recent earnings call for Meta's fourth quarter results, Zuckerberg made it clear his company will use images
posted on Facebook and Instagram to train Meta's generative AI tools. Essentially, Zuckerberg said that Meta doesn't need services like LAION-5B -- an open-source index of online images and captions
-- because he … Read the full Story >>
