PetaPixel Friday March 14, 2025
President Donald Trump has suggested he would consider extending the ban on TikTok for a second time if a deal isn’t reached by April 5, notes PetaPixel. “If I needed an extension, I’d probably get it extended,” Trump told reporters recently. “We have a lot of interest in TikTok. And China is going to play a role, so hopefully, China will approve of the deal.” However, Axios reports that there still haven’t been negotiations between TikTok's Chinese owner and prospective buyers. Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian joined a bid to buy TikTok, and Microsoft has reportedly been in talks to buy the app, according to Trump.
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ANALOG FOREVER Friday March 14, 2025
“Women may have achieved greater recognition in photography than in the history of painting or sculpture. Yet, still, the history books do not cite our accomplishments as frequently as they do those of men.” So notes Diana Nicholette Jeon, who writes The Female Gaze, a monthly feature at Frames magazine. Recently, Analog Forever magazine asked Jeon to spotlight 20 women in analog photography. They include Robin Assner-Alvey, who prints her images onto transfer film and then uses sanitizer to transfer the emulsion to papers such as Fabriano or Artistico.
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David Schonauer Friday March 14, 2025
There was a sharp increase in attacks on women journalists in 2024, according to a new report from the Coalition for Women in Journalism. The newly released Women Press Freedom study notes that 951
press violations against women journalists were documented in 2024, marking a 56-percent increase from 2023.Twenty-one women journalists were killed, the highest number since the Women Press Freedom
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HYPERALLERGIC Thursday March 13, 2025
The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California, has acquired the archives of Italian-born photographer Gusmano Cesaretti, who has documented the communities and built environment of Los Angeles for nearly six decades. The acquisition comprises roughly 238 boxes of photographs, negatives, and ephemera, notes Hyperallergic. Casaretti’s archives join the Huntington Library’s collection of 800,000 photographs, ranging from Carleton Watkins’s Western landscapes to more recent work.
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