AnOther Friday January 10, 2025
Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki’s image of Kinbaku-bi constitute perhaps his most well-known oeuvre in the West, lifting the curtain on his nation’s controversial and commonly misunderstood erotic bondage tradition, notes AnOther. “An effortless sense of performance is played both by the model and the artist,” is how the work is described by Christoph Gerozissis, senior director of the Anton Kern Gallery in New York, which has collaborated with Meredith Rosen Gallery for the new exhibition “Les Miserables,” through Jan. 18.
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DP Review Friday January 10, 2025
Godex is on a roll with a number of new items, including the V100, a 100Ws version of its round-headed V1 on/off camera flashgun. The V100 can deliver up to 100 Watt Seconds in manual mode and can shoot over 70 consecutive bursts of light at full power, notes DP Review. PetaPixel spotlights the Godox Cube-C lightweight wireless mic, aimed at creators, filmmakers, and journalists who need high-quality sound on the go. Meanwhile, NoFilmSchool is very enthusiastic about the new creative series of Godox KNOWLED MS60R and Bi-Color LED lights.
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Museum of Modern Art Friday January 10, 2025
“It is impossible to live in a country at war and remain detached from the changes unfolding around you,” notes the Museum of Modern Art, which spotlights the work of several Ukrainian artists who are “are shaping a new aesthetic grounded in fear, post-traumatic stress, and daily struggle.” The artists are Kharkiv-based Vladyslav Krasnoshchok; Lviv-based photographer Elena Subach; and Kyiv-based photographer Lisa Bukreyeva. Their work, notes MoMA, demonstrates how "war compels us to rethink our identity and the role of art itself.”
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404 Media Friday January 10, 2025
Instagram has begun testing a feature in which Meta’s AI will automatically generate images of users in various situations and put them into that user’s feed, notes 404 Media. “Used Meta AI to edit a selfie, now Instagram is using my face on ads targeted at me,” one Redditor posted. The user was shown a slideshow of AI-generated images in which an AI version of himself is standing in front of an endless “mirror maze.” The Reddit user told 404 Media that at one point he had uploaded selfies of himself into Instagram’s “Imagine” feature, which is Meta’s AI image generation feature.
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