US Immigration and Customs Enforcement been hit with a lawsuit from the American Civil Liberties Union alleging that ICE has failed to turn over records on its practice of threatening and surveilling those who film or photograph ICE agents. The ACLU and the MacArthur Justice Center filed a Freedom of Information Act request to a number of federal immigration agencies last November demanding they … Read the full Story >>
William Coupon, an influential portrait photographer who deployed a painterly style in his oft-stated quest to “photograph everyone in the world” — shooting punk rockers, artists, politicians and Indigenous people, among others — died at his home in Santa Fe, N.M., on May 29. He was 73, notes The New York Times. Coupon’s self-described “obsessive pursuit of the face” involved a classic medium shot, the subject set against a backdrop of hand-painted, mottled Belgian linen and illuminated by a light box that created dramatic contrasts of light and dark. Read the full Story >>
As the head of Ford Motor Co.’s global brand entertainment division, Alessandro Uzielli has a close connection with the business—he’s the great-great-grandson of Henry Ford. Once based in LA, Uzielli has relocated to New York City, where he continues with his lifelong passion for collecting photography, notes Mansion Global. “I went to boarding school with Tina Barney’s son and William Eggleston’s son—neither of those names meant anything to me as a punk kid, but I’m now lucky to have both in my collection,” he notes. Read the full Story >>
Did Dua Lipa celebrate her marriage to British actor Callum Turner in Sicily by eating spaghetti straight out of a pot? That's what a series of viral images seem to suggest. But, notes Euronews, the images are not real: They were generated using artificial intelligence and spread rapidly across social media platforms, including X, Instagram, Facebook and Threads. Although some users quickly identified the images as AI-generated, others appeared to be convinced they were genuine. Read the full Story >>
