Mashable Tuesday April 16, 2024
Photo dumps — a collection of selfies and other random images posted in an Instagram carousel — entered the cultural conversation in 2021. The Kardashians did it, the influencers did it, and you may have done it. But now, notes Mashable, people are mostly posting on their Stories, “if they post at all.” Why? Instagram Stories have a short lifespan that serves as an ameliorative salve to the anxiety of posting on the grid. “But even posting on Stories has lost some of its luster,” adds the site.
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Philadelphia Museum of Art Tuesday April 16, 2024
Photography spent its first century and a half never quite proving that belonged in galleries and museums. And then in the 1970s all that changed, notes Vogue, which spotlights two “small but impactful” shows at the Philadelphia Museum of Art: “Transformations: American Photographs from the 1970s,” and “In the Right Place: Photographs by Barbara Crane, Melissa Shook, and Carol Taback,” both running through July 7. The decade changed ideas about what photography could look like, how it could be used, and what it could stand for, notes the museum.
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Reuters Tuesday April 16, 2024
At its peak in the early 2000s, Photobucket was the world's top image-hosting site. Today only 2 million people still use Photobucket. But, notes Reuters, the AI revolution may give it a new lease on life: Photobucket CEO Ted Leonard says he is in talks with “multiple tech companies” to license the platform's 13 billion photos and videos to be used to train generative AI models. He has discussed rates of between 5 cents and $1 dollar per photo and more than $1 per video, with prices varying widely both by the buyer and the types of imagery sought.
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Edition Lammerhuber Tuesday April 16, 2024
Regarded as one of the late 20th Century's most influential artists, Joseph Beuys is celebrated for his eclectic and innovative works: His legacy “is a testimony to creativity, environmental activism, and the conviction that art is omnipresent and resides in all of us,” notes photojournalist Gerd Ludwig, who in 1978 traveled with Beuys to his home town in the Lower Rhine to document the artist in the environs that helped shape him. Ludwig’s image are now collected in the book Beuys Land.
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