British Journal of Photography Tuesday April 23, 2024
Spring brings photography to Kyoto, the onetime capital of Japan on the island of Honshu. Established in 2013, Kyotographie is now one of the biggest photo festivals in Asia, notes the British Journal of Photography, which has a look at this year’s edition (though May 12). The event includes 13 exhibitions across the city. Among the standouts: “The Yanomami Struggle,” by Swiss-born photographer Claudia Andujar, who has lived in Brazil since 1955, working for decades with the Yanomami indigenous group.
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TIME Tuesday April 23, 2024
The U.K. will criminalize the creation of sexually explicit deepfake images as part of plans to tackle violence against women, notes Time. People convicted of creating such deepfakes without consent, even if they don’t intend to share the images, will face prosecution and an unlimited fine under a new law, the Ministry of Justice said in a statement. Sharing the images could also result in jail. In related news, The New York Times recently reported on how girls in US high schools and middle schools are confronting an “epidemic” of deepfake nude images shared by classmates.
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David Schonauer Tuesday April 23, 2024
"One could argue that reality television is a far cry from fine art. However, in the 21st century's ring-light mirror, figures like Kim Kardashian appear as the ultimate artists of our dystopia." So
noted Plaster magazine, which recently interviewed critic Philippa Snow about her new book "Trophy Lives," a collection of incisive essays contemplating how we look at celebrity, how celebrities
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Associated Press Monday April 22, 2024
Gene Herrick, a retired Associated Press photographer who covered the Korean War and is known for his iconic images from the early years of the Civil Rights Movement, died on April 12, reports AP. He was 97. In 1956, Herrick photographed Rosa Parks being fingerprinted during the boycott that followed her refusal to move to the back of a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. That same year, he photographed Martin Luther King smiling while being kissed by Coretta Scott King on the courthouse steps after being found guilty of conspiracy to boycott the city’s buses. Herrick also covered the trial of two white men in the killing of 14-year-old Emmett Till.
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