Space.com Thursday July 24, 2025
In his new book 52 Assignments: Night Photography,award-winning astrophotographer Josh Dury takes readers on a journey to the heavens and, notes Science, “seeks to demystify the technically demanding hobby of astrophotography by offering stargazers a year's worth of weekly workshops packed with advice and photography techniques for capturing the night sky.” Dury says he often shoots with a Sony α7S II. “It’s still more than competent [enough] to take these quality images,” he notes.
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Vanity Fair Thursday July 24, 2025
In advance of the summer exhibition at her New York gallery, and in honor of the gallery’s 30th anniversary, Yancey Richardson spoke with Vanity Fair about her very first show —with the late photographer Sebastião Salgado—and about how she works with artists long term. “I don’t think artists can make work for the market,” she says. “There’s a reason why it’s called a practice. Trends are like a tide: they come and go. But in the meantime, the good work—compelling, smart, and beautifully made—prevails.”
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Bloomberg Thursday July 24, 2025
Photographer Jeffrey Sedlik is asking an appeals court to erase a jury verdict in a case involving celebrity tattoo artist Kat Von D, reports Bloomberg. In 2021, Sedlik filed a first-of-its-kind lawsuit accusing Von D of infringing on his copyright by using his iconic 1989 photo of Davis for a tattoo. But jurors in a Los Angeles federal court ruled that Von D did not infringe on Sedlik’s copyright. Now the photographer is arguing that the issue should have been decided by a judge, not “by a poorly-instructed jury swayed by a celebrity defendant.”
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THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Thursday July 24, 2025
White House officials are preparing an executive order targeting tech companies with what they see as “woke” artificial-intelligence models, reports The Wall Street Journal. The move is part of the the Trump administration’s battle against diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, the Journal adds. The order would dictate that AI companies getting federal contracts be politically neutral and unbiased in their AI models, an effort to combat what administration officials see as liberal bias in some models.
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