The New York Times Tuesday June 24, 2025
Vicki Goldberg, an influential photography critic and the author of a lauded 1986 biography of Life magazine photographer Margaret Bourke-White, died on May 29 in Manhattan, reports the New York Times. She was 88. Though she was trained as an art historian, Goldberg began writing about photography in the 1970s, when the medium was having a renaissance. She wrote for The Times and other publications, including a monthly column for American Photographer magazine and features for its successor American Photo. Among her books was “Photography in Print: Writing From 1816 to the Present” (1981).
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COLOSSAL Tuesday June 24, 2025
For artist and photographer Yael Martínez, the reality of organized crime in Mexico became more pronounced when, in 2013, three of his family members disappeared. He began to speak with others in his community who had experienced similar traumas and to connect threads across the borders of Mexico to Honduras, Brazil, and the United States. His new book Luciérnagas, which translates as “fireflies,” comes from Martínez’s meditation on the extreme brutality that “infiltrates daily life and transforms the spirit of a place,” notes Colossal.
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Digital Camera World Tuesday June 24, 2025
Adobe Firefly has reached an impressive milestone: Over 24 billion assets have been generated by the model since its release in March 2023. “To put that into perspective, 24 billion equates to 24,000 million. You’d reach roughly the same statistic if every single person in the entire world used Adobe Firefly to generate three assets,” notes Digital Camera World. The figure also serves as proof that generative AI is here to stay, adds DCW. With the recent launchof the Adobe Firefly mobile app, the numbers will keep piling up,
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BigPicture Photography Tuesday June 24, 2025
Chinese wildlife and conservation photographer Donglin Zhou is the top winner of the 12th annual BigPicture Photography Competition for her photograph “Lemur’s Tough Life,” which shows a common brown lemur making a harrowing leap from one towering cliffside to another in Madagascar with her baby on her back and other lemurs looking on. Zhou, co-founder of SKW Nature, hiked an hour through a rugged limestone terrain and then waited until the early evening to capture the remarkable photo.
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