The Guardian Monday April 29, 2024
Peter Hujar published only one book before his death from AIDS in 1987. That 1976 book, Portraits in Life and Death, was hardly noticed. But now, notes The Guardian, his portraits of drag queens, poets and artists are seen as vital documents of a vanished world. Forty-one images from Portraits in Life and Deathare on view at at the Istituto Santa Maria della Pietà, Venice, as past of the Venice biennale (through Nov, 24). “He made me conscious of the importance of the photograph as an object,” says curator Grace Deveney.
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FastCompany Monday April 29, 2024
Adobe is bringing its updated Firefly 3 AI model into Photoshop with a variety of new features that cater to professionals and amateurs alike, giving the platform “practical superpower,” noted FastCompany. The updates promise “massive advancement to quality and control including higher-quality image generations, better understanding of prompts, and enhanced detail and variety,” adds PetaPixel. Until now, notes PP, Firefly lagged behind its contemporaries when it came to generating images that looked like photos. That doesn’t appear to be the case any longer.
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David Schonauer Monday April 29, 2024
Photography website and e-commerce platform Zenfolio has published its 2024 State of the Photography Industry report, its fifth annual survey of trends in the industry. This year's study was the
largest yet, with responses from more than 7,500 photographers from over 100 countries, including self-employed professionals, employees, students and others. Among the highlighted findings: an
increasing shift from DSLRs to mirrorless camera and a … Read the full Story >>
The Guardian Friday April 26, 2024
On Wednesday, Meta projected that revenue for the current quarter would be lower than what Wall Street anticipated, and, noted The New York Times, said it would spend billions of dollars more on its artificial intelligence efforts, even as it reported robust revenue and profits for the first three months of the year. The spending plans didn’t go over well with investors: Shares in Meta slumped 15 percent when Wall Street opened on Thursday, wiping about $190bn off the value of the Facebook and Instagram parent company, reports The Guardian.
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