Fstoppers Thursday June 26, 2025
“Camera stores in the 1970s and 80s weren't just retail spaces. They were informal universities where photography knowledge was transferred through daily conversation, casual demonstration, and gradual apprenticeship,” writes Cleveland-based photographer and meteorologist Alex Cooke at Fstoppers. When chain stores and online retailers began competing with independent camera shops in the 1990s, they could match prices but couldn't replicate the expertise-driven culture, Cooke writes.
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Interview Thursday June 26, 2025
Before she was a noted photographer, Marie Tomanova was an au pair in North Carolina with a brilliant idea: She would move to New York City and attend the opening of a Ryan McGinley exhibition completely naked. Her new book Kate For You features images of her muse. “It’s an unorthodox spin on a photo book; she’s rejected the artist’s instinct to edit and curate and instead printed an entire roll of film taken in 2017 of Kate, a 21-year old Czech girl, thrashing around in a bathtub,” explains the magazine,
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Mashable Thursday June 26, 2025
There’s yet another player in the AI video game: Midjourney, best known for its AI image generator, has now launched V1 Video, its first video generation model. "Available at 10$/month, it's the first video model for everyone and it's available now,” the company announced on X, in an apparent dig at competing generative-AI video programs. OpenAI's Sora is available for ChatGPT Plus and Pro users, for $20/month or $200/month, respectively, and Google's Flow is $249/month, notes Mashable. PetaPixel has more,
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The New York Times Thursday June 26, 2025
For the past three decades, An-My Lê has used photography to examine her personal history and the legacies of US military power, probing the tension between experience and storytelling, notes Aperture, which has released the 20th-anniversary edition of Lê’s acclaimed first book Small Wars, including five new images and an afterword by Ocean Vuong. At The New York Times, Lé recently discussed why the Vietnam War still holds America’s attention 50 years after its end and how she renders both past and present,
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