ESPN Friday March 22, 2024
Photographer Miles Myerscough-Harris was given a simple task: Recreate a 100-year-old team photo of Sweden’s AIK soccer club (or fotboll club, if you prefer), But the assignment was made a bit more difficult because of his choice of equipment—a No. 4 Cartridge Kodak camera made in 1897, notes ESPN. He needed to stand 40 feet away from the players to fit everyone in the frame. Other photographers “looked at it and they're like, my God, what are you doing with that?” said Myerscough-Harris.
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PetaPixel Friday March 22, 2024
The Facebook page for the prestigious Pictures of the Year International competition has been hacked, with “bizarre AI images” being posted instead of photography. Since March 13, AI images have been shared from the POYI Facebook page, which has now been renamed “Native American Culture,” notes PetaPixel. Before March 13, the Facebook page was sharing information on its latest photo contest. The hack of POYI coincides with a report from Stanford University that scammers are leveraging AI-generated images on Facebook for audience growth, adds PP.
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Griffin Museum of Photography Friday March 22, 2024
Through March 31, the Griffin Museum of Photography in Winchester, Mass., features the exhibition “In the Room Where it Happened: A Survey of Presidential Photographers,” which features 60 years of work by Chief Official White House photographers including Shealah Craighead, Eric Draper, Michael Evans, Sharon Farmer, David Hume Kennerly, Bob McNeely, Yoichi Okamoto, Adam Schultz, Pete Souza, and David Valdez. White House photographers “have shaped our perception of the leaders’ public and private lives,” notes the museum.
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David Schonauer Friday March 22, 2024
What's the future of TikTok? On March 13, the U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a bill that would give the platform's Chinese owner about six months to divest the U.S. assets of the
short-video app, or face a ban. The bill's House backers say China could use TikTok's powerful algorithm to feed its users political propaganda and gain access to their personal data, … Read the full Story >>
