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An iconic Sycamore Gap tree, beloved by photographers, that was cruelly cut down two years ago is showing signs of recovery.
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US President Donald Trump posted an image of himself welcoming Chinese President Xi Jinping that appeared different from other images taken at the event. Read more: bbc.in/4rt2Vml
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There was chaos outside the White House yesterday as photographers from China clashed with their American counterparts over a vantage spot.
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Brilliant article by @futurism that exposes the kind of crap the digital publishing industry is up against.
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An expert has claimed that Robert Capa's famous photo 'The Falling Soldier' was actually taken by his partner Gerda Taro.
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Homer’s Odyssey was the first major piece of literature in the Western canon and we’re currently living through Nolan’s Odyssey movie. So if you think about it, all art and literature now sits in a 3,000 year Odyssey sandwich.
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Lots of good material from Matt @Growcoot about affidavits
in Nick Ut’s pending defamation trial in France against makers of the "Stringer" #doc. The doc makes the extremely belated claim Ut did not take the mythical "Napalm Girl" photo in #Vietnam in 1972.
Kim Phuc, the badly burned girl at the center of the photo, "has always stood by Ut, and has submitted testimony to the court calling the Stringer an 'outrageous and false attack on Nick Ut,'" Growcoot reports.
➡️Having seen the doc, it's more likely than not, in my view, Ut *did* take the photo
@petapixel @jackshafer @AP @kennerly #mediamyth
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can’t stop thinking about this one pic from artemis II, it’s so fucking crazy
*Press photographers. They're not paparazzi.
The U.K. perfected a certain kind of political photograph. Why don’t we have them here? slate.trib.al/6T7liMq
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I sent ChatGPT an audio file of a series of FART sound effects and asked what it thinks of "my music" and this is what it said
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I'm honestly SHOCKED at how the general public has NO IDEA Artemis II is taking humans out to the moon and will be the furthest humans have ever flown. Every non-space nerd I've talked to has no idea. WE GOTTA GET PEOPLE STOKED!!!! THESE FOUR HUMANS ARE FLYING TO THE MOON!!!
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As I wrote five months ago, it's more likely than not Nick Ut took the "Napalm Girl" photo for @AP in Vietnam in 1972.
"What is so striking about 'The Stringer' [film] is its fundamental unfairness. [Horst] Faas, a two-time Pulitzer winner, is cast as the villain, without recourse to defend himself. He died in 2012. It is left to [Carl] Robinson, his accuser, to ruminate about Faas' motives in supposedly miscrediting" the famous photo to Ut more than 50 years ago.
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@kennerly @jackshafer @MichaelSocolow @AP_Images @Netflix_USA
Ad-free preview: PetaPixel reviews The Stringer: the Man Who Took the Photo, which premieres on Netflix starting November 28.
The film's exploration of authorship, ethics, memory, war, and dignity makes it very compelling – with caveats.
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My review of 'The Stringer' - A documentary coming to Netflix this week about whether Nick Ut is the true author of the famous Vietnam War photo 'Napalm Girl'
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Fifth and final pass through Hurricane Melissa for our crew today. Just after noon entering from the NW corner exiting SE.
One of these was taken on a Leica M11 - The other on an iPhone 17 Pro. Can you tell which is which? 🤔Credit: @davidimel
One photographer in space, another on Earth. Babak Tafreshi and Don Pettit teamed up to capture the same objects at the same time while separated by 250 miles of air.
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