By
David Schonauer Wednesday November 6, 2024
Over the past week or so the internet has been alive with word of a mysterious new AI image generator that topped benchmark tests--meaning it bested Midjourney and other AI image generators. At first
known only as "red_panda," the new platform reportedly topped the Artificial Analysis' Text-to-Image Model Leaderboard, a crowdsourced ranking platform that compares leading text-to-image models
based on human preference. Now the … Read the full Story >>
Deadline Tuesday November 5, 2024
The Oscar-contending documentary Ernest Cole: Lost and Found, directed by filmmaker Raoul Peck, reveals the personal story of the photographer who managed to capture structural oppression both in South Africa and later in the United States. The film, winner of the L’Oeil d’or prize for the best documentary at the Cannes Film Festival, opens theatrically in New York on November 22 and in Los Angeles on November 29, notes Deadline, which features a trailer.
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Huck Tuesday November 5, 2024
Photographers Jordan and Anna Rathkopf married at Brooklyn City Hall in 2007, just three days after Anna left her hometown of Prague. In 2016, they were talking about having a second child when Anna found out she had an aggressive form of breast cancer. “The day after they got the diagnosis, Anna and Jordan picked up their cameras and set to work,” notes Huck, “their shared love of photography now a tool for survival.” The result of their journey is the monograph, HER2: The Diagnosed, The Caregiver, and Their Son (Daylight Books).
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ars technica Tuesday November 5, 2024
Apple is acquiring Pixelmater, the Lithuania-based firm that makes popular Mac-based photo editing tools. Pixelmator says that pending regulatory approval, there will be "no material changes to the Pixelmator Pro, Pixelmator for iOS, and Photomator apps at this time," but to stay tuned "for exciting updates to come." Fans of Pixelmator's apps, which are notably one-time purchases, unlike Adobe's tools, may be hoping that those updates “do not include the sublimation of Pixelmator into an Apple product at some future time, while the Pixelmator apps disappear,” notes Ars Technica.
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