BRUCE SILVERSTEIN Thursday April 17, 2025
Opening today and running through July 7, the exhibition “Photographer as Sculptor, Sculptor as Photographer” inaugurates a new space for New York City’s Bruce Silverstein gallery (at 529 W 20th St.). The exhibition brings together work by both influential sculptors and master photographers of the 19th and 20th centuries—from Henry Moore, Auguste Rodin and Man Ray to Imogen Cunningham, Karl Blossfeldt and André Kertész—to reveal the shared conceptual approaches that unite these seemingly distinct mediums.
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DIYPhotography Thursday April 17, 2025
Targeted towards higher-end filmmakers, Saramonic’s newly announced K9 UHF wireless microphone avoids the now-ubiquitous 2.4GHz frequencies in order to minimize interference. Instead, notes DIY Photography, it employs a 550-960MHz UHF system with various frequency ranges for legal use around the world. It also records 32-bit float internally, with microSD card support up to 512GB and native timecode, and you can sync up to 48 devices. It comes in a Pelican-style hard case with custom-cut foam inserts for included units and accessories, like AA batteries.
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BBC Thursday April 17, 2025
A trial in the landmark antitrust case against social media giant Meta kicked off in Washington this week, and the stake are high, notes the BBC: If it loses, Meta could be forced to sell off Instagram. Lawyers for the Federal Trade Commission allege Meta unlawfully quashed rivals by purchasing Instagram and WhatsApp over a decade ago. Meta says the lawsuit from the FTC, which reviewed and approved those acquisitions, is “misguided." The trial puts Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on the hot seat again, adds The New York Times.
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David Schonauer Thursday April 17, 2025
Big Tech big shots have had a hard time convincing people that they're not infringing on copyrights by training their generative AI models on data scraped from who knows where. So now some of them are
advocating that intellectual property laws "evolve"--or simply be done away with entirely. Recently, Jack Dorsey, founder of Twitter, now X, posted on his former social media site "delete … Read the full Story >>
