ARTnews Tuesday December 31, 2024
The UK is considering an upgrade of its “right to personality” law that could gain artists new safeguards against generative artificial intelligence models capable of mimicking their styles, notes Art News. The government has launched a review of how AI companies train their technology by scraping digital content. Resulting legislation could ban the development of AI tools that would allow users to replicate—or come very close to replicating—the image, distinguishing features, or voice of public figures and groups, as well as providing creators an improved rights mechanism.
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David Schonauer Tuesday December 31, 2024
Peter Magubane. Hans Feurer. David Breashears. Barbara Gladstone. Thomas Hoepker. Those were some of the notable names in photography who died in 2024. Today we remember them, along with others whose
passings we noted at Pro Photo Daily over the past year, including Bill Viola. Eikoh Hosoe. Paul Lowe, Peggy Moffitt, Hal Buell. Dmitry Markov, Dick Waterman, Gene Herrick, Helga Paris, Mark Jury,
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The New York Times Monday December 30, 2024
Cathy Cade, an activist and pioneering photographer who chronicled same-sex female relationships, producing a 1987 book that was hailed by feminists and gay-rights advocates as a classic, died on Nov. 16 at her home in Berkeley, California, notes The New York Times. She was 82. Having spent nearly a decade working on the front lines of the civil rights movement, Cade turned to photography in 1971, the year she came out as a lesbian. Her work was featured in feminist periodicals like Off Our Backs, in gallery shows and in books on feminism and gay life.
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The Athletic Monday December 30, 2024
Photographer Bruce Bennett may have been to more National Hickey League games than anyone in history: As of July 2, when Bennett most recently updated his statistics, he had been to 5,240 NHL games between the regular season and playoffs. Of those, 44 have been Stanley Cup deciders, notes The Athletic, which features his work. “I could do a game every other day through an entire season, but I’m too greedy,” says the 69-year-old. “So if there’s four games in four nights, chances are I’m going to take all four. Don’t want to leave anything on the table.”
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