Fotografiska Thursday May 30, 2024
Since opening in 2019, the New York branch of the Fotografiska museum ensemble has featured an array of photographic exhibitions inside an exquisite building in Manhattan's Flatiron District. But, as Time Out New York notes, the historic structure “doesn't seem to be working for the kinds of expansive photography exhibitions museum leaders want to showcase.” Fotografiska has announced it will close on Sept. 29 as it looks for a new site in New York. The museum will feature two last exhibitions at 281 Park Avenue South, with works by Vivian Maier and Bruce Gilden.
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AnOther Thursday May 30, 2024
Now 82, Danny Lyon looks back at his long and profound career in a new memoir, This is My Life I’m Talking About (Damiani). Whether his subject was Midwestern bikers or Texas prison inmates, Lyon defined the idea of the American outsider, declares AnOther, which praises his “natural gifts” for storytelling. “Like his photographs, Lyon’s prose is electric, poetic, and filled with explosive details, bringing readers into the middle of the action before roaring off to the next episode,” notes the blog.
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WIRED Thursday May 30, 2024
Adobe is adding new generative AI tools to Lightroom, including a Generative Remove feature that makes it “dead simple” to zap out unwanted elements, notes Wired. The new feature, in a public beta-testing phase, will work across the Lightroom ecosystem on mobile, desktop, or web. It’s “pretty similar” to the Magic Eraser” tools provided by Canva and Google’s Pixel devices, adds The Verge. Unlike Photoshop’s Content-Aware Fill tool, which tries to fill blank spaces by matching nearby pixels, Generative Remove generates three different variations that replace the removed object, allowing users to select the option they feel looks most natural.
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David Schonauer Thursday May 30, 2024
The celebrated portraitist Platon has spent much of his career photographing the famous and powerful-for Time magazine alone, has shot more than 25 covers featuring the likes of Barack Obama, Serena
Williams, Prince, Mark Zuckerberg, Muammar Gaddafi, and Vladimir Putin. But 15 years ago, a pro bono assignment from Human Rights Watch in civil war-torn Myanmar started Platon on a new path. His new … Read the full Story >>
