The Washington Post Thursday May 16, 2024
In a world desperate not to be fooled by artificial intelligence, a growing segment of tech start-ups are pitching themselves as a bulwark against the flood of fake content, notes The Washington Post. Among them is Deep Media, a Bay Area start-up that claims it can identify AI-created images, audio and video with 99 percent accuracy. The company has won at least five military contracts worth nearly $2 million since late 2022, but The Post’s review of employee LinkedIn profiles suggests it has no PhDs, AI specialists or forensic scientists on staff.
Read the full Story >>
By
David Schonauer Thursday May 16, 2024
The Holocaust; contemporary space exploration; Bulgarian communism; African fashion; the women of a remote Afro-Mexican village. Those are some of the topics of the 20 longlisted titles for the 39th
edition of the Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards, the UK's leading prize celebrating excellence in photography and moving image publishing. Following the longlist announcement, six shortlisted
publications--three in the Photography category and three in the Moving … Read the full Story >>
CBR Wednesday May 15, 2024
We all know that Peter Parker did some extraordinary things in his guise as Spider-Man. But was he good at his day job as a news photographer? The question, asked by comics and movie site CBR, may be of interest to real photographers. Spider-Man creators Steve Ditko and Stan Lee decided to make Peter Parker a photographer early on, in “Amazing Spider-Man #2,” notes CBR, and the talented young man went on to be nominated for a "News Photographer of the Year" award in 1974. But his ethics were questionable: He once apparently faked photos of battles he forgot to document.
Read the full Story >>
The Guardian Wednesday May 15, 2024
The Photo London art fair kicks off tomorrow and runs through May 19 at Somerset House, and The Guardian has some highlights. Among them: British photographer Sian Davey’s exquisite series “The Garden," from the Michael Hoppen Gallery. (See our post about the work.) There are also splashy still lives from Cihan Öncü (Dirimart, Istanbul); Chloé Jafé’s scintillating “objects of intimacy” (Galerie Echo 119, Paris); and Steven Meisel’s famed images of supermodel Linda Evangelista (Stehmann Fine Art, Munich/Art + Commerce). Read the full Story >>