Indiewire Monday May 20, 2024
Whether they’re used for advertising or as the thumbnail on a streaming service menu bar, the images shot by Hollywood unit photographers can define the public’s impression of a show—yet, notes Indiewire, they’re often captured simply by accident. Such was the case of photographer Michael Becker’s first-look photo from the upcoming Apple TV+ series Presumed Innocent. In it, star Jake Gyllenhaal stands in a courtroom looking appropriately distraught, since he’s on trial for murder. “I was plunked down on the floor, and it was just the luck of me capturing the stuff that was unfolding around me,” Becker says.
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PBS Monday May 20, 2024
For years, scholars of Mark Twain have been fascinated with his butler, George Griffin. Born enslaved, Griffin “was a smart man with incredible social skills,” Twain scholar Kevin Mac Donnell tells PBS. Many believe, in fact, that Griffin was the inspiration for Jim, the resourceful runaway slave in Twain’s “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.” Mac Donnell discovered the only known photograph of Griffin while searching online, and it was recently unveiled at the The Mark Twain House and Museum in Hartford, Connecticut.
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Futurism Monday May 20, 2024
Google has become the latest target in the fight to protect copyright from AI data scraping, and this time, notes Futurism, the group of artists suing the search behemoth has receipts. Filed in the Northern District of California, the suit was brought by photographer Jingna Zhang and illustrators Sarah Andersen, Hope Larson, and Jessica Fink. They say they discovered their work was part of Google's Imagen image generator's initial training data after Google released a paper about it in 2022 that noted it had used the publicly-available LAION-400M dataset. Zhang recently won a copyright case against a painter in Luxembourg.
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Photoville Monday May 20, 2024
The 13th edition of the Photoville photography festival returns to its original site in Brooklyn Bridge Park, plus over 85 free outdoor photo exhibitions on view across all five boroughs of New York City, from June 1 to 16. Among this year’s exhibitions: “We Cry in Silence,” Delhi based photojournalist Smita Sharma’s look at cross-border trafficking of underage girls in South Asia, and “Chef’ not ‘Cook’: The Process to Plate,” a photo series about eight industry-leading African-American chefs across New York from Brendan Miller.
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