ARTnews Monday March 23, 2026
Trevor Paglen is this year’s winner of the LG Guggenheim Award for technology-minded artists, notes Art News. He says the $100,000 prize will support the costs of his work, which contends with surveillance technology and AI. Paglen, who won a MacArthur “genius” fellowship in 2017, is best known for photographs that appear to represent placid skies, abstracted landscapes, and shimmering stars. Instead, they document forms of surveillance that are deliberately stowed away from the view of the general public. Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Monday March 23, 2026
Eugene Atget was born in Libourne, France, near Bordeaux, in 1857, and he died in 1927 in Paris. During his life, he worked as a sailor, tried acting and at age 40 took up photography. He spent the
last 30 years of his life, as the curator John Szarkowski once noted, quietly pursuing his craft, recording "the fruits of French culture" as they looked … Read the full Story >>
Digital Camera World Friday March 20, 2026
Are your Instagram captions filled with actual information, AI-generated drivel? “You probably know the style. Quasi-poetic word-vomit like: ‘the animal moved effortlessly through a canvas painted by light and pure chance,’” writes photographer Bella Falk at Digital Camera World (via Fortune). “I understand why, if you’re not a confident writer, you might be tempted to get ChatGPT to write your captions for you. But if you do, you’re shooting yourself in both feet at point-blank range for several crucial reasons,” notes Falk. Read the full Story >>
LA Review of Books Friday March 20, 2026
The central idea of acclaimed photographer John Divola’s 2004 book Dogs Chasing My Car in the Desert was all explained in the title: In 1996, Divola drove through the Southern California desert and dogs gave chase. He photographed them with his Canon F-1, “mid-stride, mouths open, teeth visible, their dusty bodies pitched forward in full extension,” notes the LA Review of Books—a purely photographic exercise capturing the “fact of motion in a raw and feral state.” Now Divola has reprinted Dogs Chasing My Car in the Desert with Nazraeli Press. Read the full Story >>
