International Center of Photography Friday April 12, 2024
On Wednesday, the International Center of Photography honored five women for their contributions to photography at the ICP’s 40th Annual Infinity Awards. Those receiving awards were Lynsey Addario (Documentary Practice and Visual Journalism); Renell Medrano (Commercial and Editorial Photography); Shirin Neshat (Lifetime Achievement); Wendy Red Star (Contemporary Photography and New Media): and Caryl S. Englander (Trustees Award). It’s the first time ICP’s Infinity Awards has awarded five women for their achievements.
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David Schonauer Friday April 12, 2024
OpenAI still hasn't divulged when its AI video generator Sora will be available, but it's continuing to show just what the new service can do. Recently, for instance, OpenAI posted the music video for
a song called "Worldweight," by indie musician August Kamp, that was created with Sora. Meanwhile, questions remain about Sora's training data. According to The New York Times, OpenAI has "cut … Read the full Story >>
BLEEPING COMPUTER Thursday April 11, 2024
Generative AI services like Midjourney and OpenAI's DALL-E can deliver complex, photo-realistic images from simple text prompts. Yet, notes tech reporter Ax Sharma at Bleeping Computer, some of the simplest tasks are evidently what AI struggles with the most. Sharma explains that data scientist Cody Nash found the AI shortcoming when he pondered "Can AI Create a White Painting?” All Nash wanted “was an image of a plain, pure, white background,” he notes. “Such an utterly simple task proved to be rather arduous, however.”
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National Portrait Gallery Thursday April 11, 2024
“They were truly glamorous people, and that was the image I wanted to portray.” So said George Hurrell, who reigned as Hollywood’s preeminent portrait photographer in the 1930s and 1940s. Hired by the Publicity Department at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer when he was 25, Hurrell advanced rapidly to become the studio’s principal portrait photographer, creating images of Dietrich, Gable, Garbo and others that were infused, notes Vanity Fair, with shadow, seductive light, and sex appeal. His work is on view at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC.
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