Amateur Photographer Monday February 5, 2024
Canon has released its annual report for 2023, showing some very promising sales figures. While the camera industry may never get back to pre-smartphone sales figures, notes DIY Photography, Canon reported sales of ¥861.6 billion (~$5.8 billion) in its imaging division, representing a 7.2 percent increase from the previous fiscal year. Operating profit increased from ¥126.6 billion (~$860 million) to ¥145.6 billion (~$990 million). Amateur Photographer notes that the latest data from the Camera and Imaging Products Association reveals that the value of the new digital camera market was up 5.37 percent year-on-year.
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David Schonauer Monday February 5, 2024
Reid Southen, a movie concept artist based in Michigan, had tried out an AI image generator, but when he learned how A.I. systems were trained on other people's artwork, he wondered whether the tools
were exploiting artists and violating copyright protections. He tried an experiment, asking AI image generator Midjourney to create an image of Joaquin Phoenix from "The Joker." In seconds, the system … Read the full Story >>
Pitchfork Friday February 2, 2024
Influential British photographer Brian Griffin, whose portraits of 1980s pop musicians led to him being named the "photographer of the decade" by The Guardian newspaper in 1989, died on Jan 29 at age 75. Griffin famously shot the striking cover art for Depeche Mode’s first five albums, as well as covers of for the Psychedelic Furs, Elvis Costello and other musicians, notes Pitchfork. Born in Birmingham in 1948, Griffin intertwined surrealist motifs throughout work that mischievously rethought the corporate world, notes Wallpaper.
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Jianfeng Dai Friday February 2, 2024
Jeff Dai, a photographer based in China, recently captured a rare phenomenon in the night sky over Iceland. Dai observed an unusual rippling motion within the green bands of the aurora borealis on January 16 and dove for his camera. Such “aurora curls” occur when the Earth’s magnetic field vibrates. Dai’s images reveal a physical manifestation of the phenomenon, which is normally observed only in data collected by instrumentation monitoring Earth’s magnetosphere, notes The Debriief.
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