Courthouse News Service Friday December 27, 2024
Photobucket users have filed a class action lawsuit against the image cloud company to prevent it from selling their pictures to companies “who can use them to create biometric facial recognition databases.” Chicago artist Mac Pierce, who leads the lawsuit along with others, also worries his content will be used to create deepfakes. Launched in 2003, Photobucket attracted millions of users who uploaded roughly 13 billion photos over two decades. Before sites like Twitter could directly carry image uploads, users often uploaded pictures first to Photobucket and then shared links on social media, notes Courthouse News.
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David Schonauer Friday December 27, 2024
The summer months of 2024 brought some encouraging news for photographers about the art market, and some disquieting news for investors about the artificial Intelligence boom. In July we noted that
while global photography sales fell in value by 16 percent between 2022 and 2023, dragged down by weakened performance at the high end of the market, "all is much more exciting" for images … Read the full Story >>
DIYPhotography Thursday December 26, 2024
While the journey of exploring the cosmos through a camera lens can be a solitary one, social media platforms have transformed how astrophotographers connect, learn, and grow, notes DIY Photography, which spotlights five top sites for sharing astrophotography: AstroBin; Cloudy Nights; Picastro; Stargazers Lounge; and SolarChat, a niche platform dedicated to enthusiasts who focus on capturing the Sun’s dynamic features.
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DAZED Thursday December 26, 2024
Today’s world can’t get enough of the 1980s. We recently spotlighted a book about photography and design during that glitzy decade, as well as a big exhibition about photography in the UK from the Margaret Thatcher era. Now Dazed looks at an exhibition at the Deichtorhallen in Hamburg, Germany, that brings together a generation of photographers – including Nan Goldin, David Armstrong, Mark Morrisroe and Philip-Lorca diCorcia — who came of age in the 70s and 80s as part of the so-called “Boston School” of photography.
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