DP Review Monday August 19, 2024
Kodak Alaris, the company that markets and sells Kodak photographic film and its Kodak Moments printing and kiosk business, has been sold to Kingswood Capital Management, a Los Angeles-based private equity firm. DP Review goes over the Kodak saga, starting in 2012, when Eastman Kodak, the Rochester, New York-based company most people picture when they think about Kodak, entered Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Did we mention that it has been a saga?
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Design Boom Monday August 19, 2024
Benedict Redgrove has photographed vehicles such as Aston Martin’s Valkyrie, McLaren 720s, James Bond’s Lotus Esprit, the McMurtry Spéirling, and the Red Bull RB12 F1 car that shot driver Max Verstappen to fame. His new book Auto Photo Manual: The Art of Car Photography is both a lush presentation of his images and a resource tool, notes Design Boom. In it, Redgrove reveals his process of shooting vehicles, from pre- and post-production to setting up lighting and cameras and working with CGI.
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THE VERGE Monday August 19, 2024
You can say goodbye to your library tab in Google Photos: Google is introducing a new destination called Collections that it says will make “finding content easier than ever.” Collections house all of your albums in one place, including your private albums and those that have been shared with you by other users, as well as new folders for people and pets, documents, and places, notes The Verge. The changes are presumably in support of Google’s upcoming Gemini-powered Ask Photos assistant. See also: The Phoblographer.
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David Schonauer Monday August 19, 2024
Artists suing generative artificial intelligence art generators have cleared a major hurdle in a first-of-its-kind lawsuit over the uncompensated and unauthorized use of billions of images downloaded
from the internet to train AI systems: A federal judge last week ruled that the artists' lawsuit against Stability AI, Midjourney, DeviantArt and Runway may advance. US District Judge William Orrick
also refused to dismiss related trademark-law … Read the full Story >>
