Art in America Tuesday October 29, 2024
“When people talk about me, I want them to be whispering,’” the photographer Peter Hujar once said. But now, 37 years after Hujar’s death from AIDS-related complications, “nobody is merely whispering Hujar’s name,” notes Art in America. Hujar, best known for his black-and-white studio portraits of friends, lovers, artists, and queer icons from New York’s underground, “has crossed over into the mainstream in ways that were once unimaginable,” adds AIA. The Hujar Estate, for instance, just republished Portraits in Life and Death, his hard-to-find 1976 book.
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PetaPixel Tuesday October 29, 2024
Google has brought Imagen 3 — the company’s powerful AI image generator — to Gemini, its artificial intelligence chatbot. “It means users can generate pictures via the AI assistant in much the same way DALL-E operates on ChatGPT. However, there is one catch: Users won’t be able to generate images of people,” notes PetaPixel. Generating images of people is only available in Gemini Advanced. Google offers a one-month free trial of Gemini Advanced, after which it costs $19.99 per month.
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Dog Photography Awards Tuesday October 29, 2024
Man’s best friend takes center stage in the Dog Photography Awards, which feature winners in five categories: Portrait, Action, Studio, Documentary and Dogs and People. The winner of the latter is Jane Thomson, for her image “The Princess & The Pea," which celebrates the role animals play as part of a pet therapy program at a children's hospital. Created by dog photographers Audrey Bellot and Claudio Piccoli, the contest is judged by a panel of professionals. This year’s competition drew 1,700 entries from over 60 different countries.
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Projections Tuesday October 29, 2024
Eugene Richards will look back at his career and talk about his new book, In This Brief Life, at a Projections event on Oct. 30. The acclaimed documentary photographer will present selections of work made over the past 50 years, most of it never before seen, beginning with his depiction of poor sharecroppers in the 1960s South. Richards will also discuss the role of the socially-aware photojournalist today. Where: via Zoom. When 7:00 pm ET.
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