Deadline Tuesday March 11, 2025
Herb Greene, whose iconic photographs of the 1960 San Francisco rock scene captured the era’s superstars — Jefferson Airplane, Janis Joplin, The Grateful Dead, among others — died on March 3 at his home in Maynard, Massachusetts, following a long illness. He was 82, notes Deadline. Many of Greene’s photographs of the scene’s stars were published in Rolling Stone and other rock magazines. What would become one of his most famous photographs, a group portrait of Jefferson Airplane, became the cover of the band’s hugely successful 1967 album “Surrealistic Pillow.”
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David Schonauer Tuesday March 11, 2025
In 1840, a year after photography's invention, the painter Paul Delaroche exclaimed, "From now on, painting is dead." Today, in the new age of generative artificial intelligence, many are wondering if
photography is dead. Certainly it is something different, notes educator and photography critic Fred Richin in his new book "The Synthetic Eye." Richin, who has been writing about digital imagery for
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Amateur Photographer Monday March 10, 2025
Alongside Sigma’s announcement of the new and “radically simple” BF full-frame mirrorless camera, a new 16-300mm super-zoom lens, and a new 300-600mm f/4 telephoto zoom lens, the company also revealed that it has stopped development of new DSLR lenses. The news, notes Amateur Photographer, came as part of the announcement of new mirrorless lenses, which have dropped the “DN” designation for lenses designed for mirrorless. Sigma says the designation is no longer needed, as all new Sigma lenses are for mirrorless cameras only. Very few manufacturers still making new DSLR lenses, adds AP.
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Forbes Monday March 10, 2025
Visitors entering the new exhibition “Rivals: Photography vs. Promptography” in Berlin are greeted by two images: One is Boris Eldagsen’s “The Electrician,” an AI-generated image that won a Sony World Photography competition in 2023, only for the artist to reject the prize. The other is Miles Astray’s “Flamingone,” a real photo that was disqualified from a contest last year after netting awards in the AI category. The exhibition, notes Forbes, pits cameras against algorithms in an attempt to highlight the possibilities and limitations of each.
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