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David Schonauer Thursday May 15, 2025
Colonial and familial archives; intergenerational storytelling; notions of "the self" and of "the other"; the preservation and transformation of the past; and deeply personal approaches to identity,
gender and sexuality-these are some of the themes considered among the 20 longlisted titles for the 40th edition of the Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards. Since their inception in 1985, the awards have
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The Harvard Gazette Thursday May 15, 2025
Artificial intelligence is posing threats to photojournalists on issues from copyright to misinformation. But, notes The Havard Gazette, veteran photo editor Kira Pollack, who is now the Walter Shorenstein Media & Democracy Fellow at the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, thinks it might also be effectively used to catalog, organize, and contextualize vital work from the vast archives of photojournalists and make it discoverable. To find out, she and photojournalist Christopher Morris ran an experiment with his archive.
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CBC Thursday May 15, 2025
Owls can be easy to find in Calgary, notes the CBC: Their impeccable camouflage, perfected over the course of millions of years of evolution, isn't very effective when the tree they're in is surrounded by dozens of photographers. Their practices, including tempts to trick the owlets into looking at them, coupled with some trespassing beyond park boundaries to get the right shot, put the bird at risk, longtime birdwatcher and wildlife photographer Jean Wallace tells the news service.
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ARTnews Thursday May 15, 2025
The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation have announced a $800,000 fund to be distributed among 80 visual arts programs at small and mid-sized organizations across the country. The recipients of the grants, notes Art News, had previously received funding through Challenge America, an National Endowment for the Arts initiative designed to bring art to underserved communities. That initiative was recently suspended by the Trump administration.
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