VentureBeat Thursday May 23, 2024
Artists and photographers have increasingly spoken out against their work being used to train AI models without compensation or permission. Now, reports VentureBeat, a new platform, Wirestock, has emerged with plan that could give creators a measure of control over the situation. The platform allows creators to upload their work online and license them out through image services including Getty, Adobe Stock, and Canva, while also giving them the option to allow AI companies to train on that work in exchange for payment.
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Victoria & Albert Museum Thursday May 23, 2024
"The latest exhibition of works from Elton John and David Furnish’s gargantuan photography collection is everything you’d expect it to be: spangly, iconoclastic – and a little bit basic,” declares The Guardian in a review of the exhibition “Fragile Beauty,” on view at London’s V&A through Jan. 5, 2025. Featuring more than 300 artworks (by everyone from Irving Penn and Robert Mapplethorpe to Nan Goldin, David LaChapelle and Alec Soth, the show is the largest in the museum’s history, adds Vogue. But Sir Elton tells the BBC he hates being photographed.
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British Journal of Photography Thursday May 23, 2024
In October, a huge new photography museum is due to open in Lishui, a city of of 2.5 million in southeast China. The Lishui Photography Culture Center will have a total construction area of 34,221 square meters, of which 15,150 square meters is devoted to three floors of exhibition space. By comparison, notes the British Journal of Photography, the V&A’s recently completed Photography Center in London has 1,000 square meters of dedicated space for photography, while New York’s Essex Crossing International Center of Photography has just over 3,700 square meters of exhibition, education and administration space.
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David Schonauer Thursday May 23, 2024
Hippolyte Bayard never got the attention he deserved as one of the inventors of photography. And he knew it. While working as a civil servant in the Ministry of Finance in the late 1830s and early
1840s, he devoted much of his free time to inventing processes that captured and fixed images from nature on paper. But due to some back-room finagling, it was … Read the full Story >>
