PetaPixel Friday February 14, 2025
A leadership crisis is gripping the 35,000-member Professional Photographers of America, notes PetaPixel, which on Jan. 30 explained how a controversial series of elections—including a recall of the PPA’s board of directors—has fractured the organization. A follow-up article notes that based on a recap of the organization’s annual meeting yesterday on February 3 at the Imaging USA event, “the situation has worsened, at least for some members.”
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artnet Friday February 14, 2025
.Artnet Auctions’ Select Photographs sale comes in time for Valentine’s Day, and it features a number of famously romantic images, from that iconic kiss on a busy Parisian Street snapped by Robert Doisneau and a moment of tender intimacy captured by Nan Goldin to Malian photographer Malick Sidibé’s shot of a young coupe dancing the evening away and German photographer Kathrin Linkersdorff’s bouquet of tulips. Artnet kindly tells the stories behind the pictures in a new post. Meanwhile, AnOther spotlights six of the most romantic photo books ever.
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DP Review Friday February 14, 2025
Sony is updating its Creators’ app and Creators’ Cloud platform to give users more options for getting their photos from their cameras onto the cloud, notes DP Review. The new update allows users to directly upload images to Google Drive or Lightroom, either straight from certain Sony cameras via Wi-Fi or from their smartphones via the Creators' App. The feature works by first uploading the images to Sony's Creators' Cloud, which will then automatically transfer them to Drive or Lightroom.
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artnet news Friday February 14, 2025
Invoke, a generative artificial intelligence platform, has been granted the first copyright protections for an A.I. image since new guidelines were handed down by the U.S. Copyright Office last month. The new guidelines stated that some AI-generated art could receive copyright protection provided that a human substantially contributed or changed the content in question. Invoke CEO Kent Keirsey said he demonstrated to the U.S. Copyright Office that he had inputted enough human creativity into the image to warrant protection, adds PetaPixel.
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