Tag: photography

• How stock photographers take a perfectly anonymous picture

  July 6, 2019

  The Atlantic’s Megan Garber summed up the intrinsic quality of a stock photo like this: “To see a stock image is to know you’re seeing a stock image.” It’s a… more ›

• Revolution! Latin American photography – in pictures

  June 13, 2019

  From the photos by Alberto Korda that helped canonise Che Guevara to snatched street images of resistance, new show Urban Impulses embraces a turbulent half-century of revolvers and rebellion https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2019/jun/13/revolution-latin-american-photography-in-pictures more ›

• The Dressing Rooms of Broadway: 33 Photos Over Nearly a Century

  June 9, 2019

  What performers take off (and put on), as told in 33 photographs and the words of Jesse Green, co-chief theater critic for The New York Times. “Some dressing rooms are… more ›

• These fake images tell a scary story of how far AI has come

  May 31, 2019

  In the past five years, machine learning has come a long way. You might have noticed that Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant are way better than they used to be,… more ›

• This colorful printed patch makes you pretty much invisible to AI

  April 23, 2019

  The rise of AI-powered surveillance is extremely worrying. The ability of governments to track and identify citizens en masse could spell an end to public anonymity. But as researchers have… more ›

• Who’s using your face? The ugly truth about facial recognition

  April 21, 2019

  Gain a global perspective on the US and go beyond with curated news and analysis from 600 journalists in 50+ countries covering politics, business, innovation, trends and more. https://www.ft.com/content/cf19b956-60a2-11e9-b285-3acd5d43599e more ›

• The Daily Miracle: Finding Magic Inside The Times’s Printing Plant

  April 8, 2019

  Consider the newspaper, the physical object, printed on processed wood pulp, shot upward on rollers at high speed as ink is applied, gathered and folded and bundled, dropped off at… more ›

• This Person Does Not Exist

  March 2, 2019

  StyleGAN (Dec 2018) – Karras et al. and Nvidia Original GAN (2014) – Goodfellow et al. https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/?utm_source=Benedict%27s+newsletter&utm_campaign=411f18f2e8-Benedict%27s+Newsletter_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_4999ca107f-411f18f2e8-70754709 more ›

• An Unflinching View of Venezuela in Crisis

  February 27, 2019

  Alejandro Cegarra’s photo series “State of Decay” is an unflinching portrait of Venezuela’s collapse. How this country went from being one of Latin America’s richest societies to one of its… more ›

• The 21st century belongs to China—but the 22nd will be Africa’s

  February 22, 2019

  The 21st century will most likely belong to China as the Chinese Century. But with a rapid increase in Chinese investment and African innovation, the 22nd century may see the… more ›