THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Wednesday May 8, 2024
Stock photographers who survived the disruptive advent of digital cameras and online sales are bracing for the next great tech shock: generative AI. And, notes The Wall Street Journal, some are predicting the worst, because AI’s ability to generate realistic images from text prompts is now giving stock clients an affordable, fast alternative to stock photography. The stock-photo companies are hedging their bets by introducing AI tools of their own. The sort-of good news: AI is unlikely to diminish stock photographers’ pay because companies like Getty Images and Shutterstock have to keep prices high enough to maintain their own operations.
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David Schonauer Wednesday May 8, 2024
Tish Murtha, who created unparalleled portraits of working-class life in the UK during the 1970s and 80s, has been "rediscovered" with the release last year of the haunting documentary film "Tish."
But, as The Guardian noted recently, interest in working-class photography has been growing across the art world. Along with the Murtha film, there's an exhibition focusing on documentary
photographer Bert Hardy at London's … Read the full Story >>
Rolling Stone Tuesday May 7, 2024
Daniel Kramer, a rock photographer who shot some of the most iconic images of Bob Dylan, including the covers of the albums "Bringing It All Back" and "Highway 61 Revisted," died on April 29, reports Rolling Stone, He was 91. The Washington Post notes that Kramer captured Dylan “during a pivotal year in popular music, tracing his evolution from a cheery, tousle-haired folk act to an enigmatic, sunglass-clad rock star.” Kramer, who had apprenticed under Diane Arbus and Life magazine photographer Philippe Halsman, had no idea who Dylan was until he saw him perform on television in 1964.
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GQ Tuesday May 7, 2024
As a child growing up in Kansas City, Ivan McClellan road horses and would sing the national anthem at the American Royal rodeo with a youth choir. But he never identified with cowboy culture, notes NPR, because just about everybody else around him was white. The in the summer of 2015, McClellan attended his first Black rodeo in Oklahoma, an experience, adds GQ, that he has compared to stepping into his own Technicolor Oz. McClellan spent nearly a decade on he road for his new book Eight Seconds: Black Rodeo Culture.
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