The New York Times Monday September 23, 2024
Mark Jury, a photographer whose images from the battlefields of South Vietnam and the deathbed of his coal miner grandfather filled the pages of two critically acclaimed books in the 1970s, died on Aug. 27 in Scranton, Pa. He was 80, notes The New York Times. Jury’s 1971 collection The Vietnam Photo Book was one of the earliest to offer a visually unblinking view of what he called “the first and only rock ’n’ roll war. His 1976 book Grampwas an account of his maternal grandfather’s struggle with dementia in his final years.
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Digital Camera World Monday September 23, 2024
DxO’s new flagship photo editor aims to be the “ultimate” photo editing software, notes PetaPixel. Digital Camera World says the recently announced DxO PhotoLab 8 is one of the photo editing software tools on the market, “combining image browsing and organizing with advanced non-destructive editing of both raw files and JPEGs. Its key features are its AI-powered DeepPRIME XD2s noise reduction process and bespoke lens correction profiles, both improved in this version.” Read the full Story >>
ARTnews Monday September 23, 2024
In a video posted to social media, Melania Trump is defending her past nude modeling— comparing it, notes Art News, to several classical paintings and sculptures, including Michelangelo‘s David. The New York Times notes that the video, which comes prior to the release of a new memoir titled Melania, ”is certainly a first for a former first lady.” WWD talked with Alexandre Alé de Basseville about shooting nudes of Trump, while Vanity Fair talked with photographer Antoine Verglas about photographing the former Melania Knauss.
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation Monday September 23, 2024
Meta, the owner of Facebook and Instagram, has admitted that it scrapes the public photos, posts and other data of Australian adult users to train its AI models, reports the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Though users of the apps in Europe and the US were previously alerted that their content would be scraped unless they opted out, Australian users were provided with no opt-out choice, added the ABC. Meta's global privacy director Melinda Claybaugh made the admission during an Australian legislative inquiry.
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