PetaPixel Tuesday October 22, 2024
New Jersey-based photographer Michael Gaffney has won a landmark copyright infringement lawsuit against brand-management behemoth Authentic Brands Group (ABG), securing damages totaling $1.65 million, notes PetaPixel. Gaffney filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York alleging that ABG and its subsidiary Muhammad Ali Enterprises committed copyright infringement of 11 of Gaffney’s photographs of Muhammad Ali, captured when Gaffney was the boxer’s personal photographer in the late 1970s. After a six-day trial, a jury found ABG liable on 23 counts of copyright infringement. Read the full Story >>
Sotheby's Tuesday October 22, 2024
Ansel Adams is still rocking the art world: a collection of images by the legendary landscape photographer brought in a total of $4,567,680 in a recent live auction at Sotheby’s—far exceeding the pre-sale estimate between $1,775,000 to $2,801,000. The sale achieved a 100-percent sell-through rate and set “an unprecedented” 41 new records, notes the auction house. The collection was comprised of photographs selected by Adams himself and later gifted to The Friends of Photography, the non-profit organization he co-founded.
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Global Investigative Journalism Network Tuesday October 22, 2024
“Photojournalism plays a crucial role in documenting the horrors of war and conflict, providing powerful evidence for investigations into human rights violations and war crimes,” notes the Global Investigative Journalism Network, which will hold a webinar on war photography with photojournalist Ron Haviv on Oct. 29 at 9 am. Haviv will explore the ethical and practical challenges of documenting conflict. He will discuss his experience capturing iconic images in some of the world’s most dangerous war zones.
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Wonderful Machine Tuesday October 22, 2024
Founded in 1701 in New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University is known as one of the most prestigious universities in the world. But the institution's history is not without its blemishes. In 2020, the
university initiated "The Yale and Slavery Research Project" to acknowledge and address its past ties to slavery. Yale recently hired Maryland-based photographer Othello Banaci and his video
production company Subminimal to … Read the full Story >>
