HYPERALLERGIC Tuesday February 13, 2024
On view at Gallery Luisotti’s new downtown Los Angeles space is photographer Christina Fernandez’s recent series, "Subdivision," which Hyperallergic calls an LA “coming-of-age story.” Fernandez “turns the camera toward her teenage son, Diego, and the suburban Southern California landscape in which he grew up. Documenting the mundane suburbs with a dramatic, cinematic flare, the artist celebrates her son’s evolution and the place that shaped him,” explains writer Rebecca Schiffman.
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The New York Times Tuesday February 13, 2024
Dick Waterman, a beacon in the world of blues who as a promoter, talent manager and photographer helped revive the careers of a generation of performers while lyrically documenting their journeys with his camera, died on Jan. 26 in Oxford, Miss., reports The New York Times. He was 88. Waterman studied photography at Boston University after a stint in the army and went on to as a sportswriter and photographer for newspapers. He was covering the Newport Folk Festival in Rhode Island in 1963 when he witnessed the power of the blues in a performance by Mississippi John Hurt.
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PetaPixel Tuesday February 13, 2024
During his earnings call for Meta’s fourth quarter results this week, CEO Mark 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 already has access to that type of mass data, notes PetaPixel. Meta, which last month announced a standalone AI image generator to compete with the likes of DALL-E and Midjourney, has already admitted that it has used “publicly available” data to train its AI tools.
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World Photography Organization Tuesday February 13, 2024
An elephant with a smattering of sand in Nepal, a diver taking a deep breath in calm seas in Egypt and a child celebrating Christmas. Those, notes CNN, are the subjects of some of this year’s Sony World Photography Awards national and regional winners. The winning photographs were unveiled by the World Photography Organization recently. More than 395,000 images from countries around the world this year were entered this year. Winners of the contest’s student, youth, open and professional competitions will be announced April 18.
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