Abbey Road Studios Music Photography Awards Wednesday May 27, 2026
Abbey Road Studios has announced it is now accepting entries for the 2026 Abbey Road Music Photography Awards — the fifth edition of the global competition dedicated to music photography. Also announced were the judges for the contest, including photographer Rankin and British singer and songwriter Raye and guitarist Nile Rogers, noted Rolling Stone. This year’s awards will honor legendary punk photographer Roberta Bayley. Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Wednesday May 27, 2026
The Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust has condemned the unauthorized use of the photographer's name and work for the creation of an "AI-generated color version" of Adams's photograph "Moonrise,
Hernandez, New Mexico." New York's Danziger Gallery had the colorized image up for sale at the Association of International Photography Art Dealers' (AIPAD) art fair in April. The exhibit by the
Danziger Gallery "exploited Ansel's … Read the full Story >>
Associated Press Tuesday May 26, 2026
Filmmaker Steven Soderbergh has revealed that he used AI-generated images in his new documentary John Lennon: The Last Interview. The film, which debuted at the Cannes Film Festival, adapts an interview Lennon and Yoko Ono gave to a radio crew the day he was shot in 1980. After making use of available visual material, Soderbergh accepted an offer to use Meta’s AI software to conjure imagery that makes up about 10% of the film. He tells Associated Press how he did it, and why.
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AnOther Tuesday May 26, 2026
Few artists have probed the authorship, seduction and afterlife of circulated images as persistently as American conceptual artist Richard Prince, notes AnOther. At the Albertina Museum in Vienna, a major exhibition (though Aug. 16) brings together some 150 Prince works, many never shown before. Focused on the artist’s photographic oeuvre from the 1970s to the present, it includes seminal series such as Fashion, Gangs and Cowboys, alongside sculpture, painting, collage and autobiographical imagery from a “master of appropriation.” Read the full Story >>
