CNET Thursday December 4, 2025
Google debuted a tool allowing users to edit photos using only their voices on its Pixel 10 phones, then in September rolled out Conversational Editing in its Photos app to all eligible Android users and more recently iOS users in the US. Well, most users: CNET notes that the tool is notably missing for Texas and Illinois residents, two of the most populated states in the US. Legal experts believe the problem is because of Texas’s and Illinois’s strict laws around how data is retained, stored, and used, adds PetaPixel.
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David Schonauer Thursday December 4, 2025
It was a picture that Americans longed to see--a happy family rushing to reunite with a U.S. Air Force officer in 1973 who spent years as a POW in North Vietnam, his oldest daughter sprinting ahead
with her arms outstretched, both feet off the ground. Called "Burst of Joy," the image, taken by Associated Press photographer Sal Veder, won a Pulitzer Prize and has … Read the full Story >>
THE ART NEWSPAPER Wednesday December 3, 2025
In June, Florence’s Uffizi Galleries announced plans to place “precise limits” on selfie taking after a visitor damaged a portrait by Anton Domenico Gabbiani while attempting to photograph himself with the work. This incident, and the rounds of heated debate that followed, have highlighted a question, notes The Art Newspaper: Are selfies a vain distraction that pose a risk to works of art, or a useful tool through which visitors connect with cultural spaces? Much depends on the museum, says Ross Parry, a professor of museum technology at the University of Leicester.
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Interview Wednesday December 3, 2025
Since her breakout in 2018, photographer Carment Winant has become an art world superstar, notes Interview magazine. “Her style, blanketing walls in archival images, works in service of her gestalt: to reclaim and reframe images of women, especially those long erased and overlooked. At the 2024 Whitney Biennial, she showed The Last Safe Abortion, a photo installation of 2,500 prints of abortion care,” notes writer Eloise King-Clements, who recently talked with Winant about the future of feminist photography. Read the full Story >>
