Round Up of Week of Nov 11
/The Producer’s picks for this week’s news relevant to the photography, art, design and production industries
The new book Magnum America traces the nation’s often turbulent journey from the tentative optimism
Magnum America is not a comprehensive photographic history of the United States, but rather draws on stories from the Magnum Archives to ask: What is ‘America’?
2. Leading Spanish photographer’s studio wrecked by floods
A Spanish artist’s studio has been devastated by last week’s catastrophic flash floods, which ripped through the country’s eastern regions, killing more than 200 people and destroying millions of euros worth of property and infrastructure in their wake.
3. Music Photographers Up in Arms Over ‘Rights Grab’ Contracts
Music photographers have sounded the alarm over “copyright grab” contracts that are being enforced by major artists.
4. Ansel Adams: A Legacy Photographs Sold for $4.6m
Sotheby’s' recent Ansel Adams: A Legacy - Photographs from the Meredith Collection featured a comprehensive selection of Ansel Adams’ most significant images, from his views of Yosemite Valley to his abstract studies of the Pacific Coast.
5. AI trained on as little as 200 images can provide passable imitations of popular artworks,
AI trained on as little as 200 images can provide passable imitations of popular artworks, according to a new study published in Cornell University’s preprint server arXiv—highlighting just how easy it can be for AI systems to mimic copyrighted work.