Left: a photo with an iPhone. Right: a photo taken with a DSLR. Photos courtesy Paris Martineau Like many of my fellow East Coasters, I watched the light inside my apartment darken and turn orange around 2 p.m. on Wednesday, and pulled out my phone to get a photo. The air quality outside was in […]
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39 Tony-Nominated Performers on Why They Act: ‘It’s Intoxicating’
What draws an actor to the stage? There’s the desire to be seen, sure, and a passion for storytelling. For some it feels like a calling; for others, a compulsion. A way to connect, or to feel. In preparation for this year’s Tony Awards, which take place on June 11, we asked Tony-nominated performers to […]
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Jackie on My Mind
WASHINGTON — I think about Jackie Kennedy several times a day. I have no choice. Tour groups come by my house in Georgetown to see John Kennedy’s bachelor pad, where he was living when he met Jacqueline Bouvier at a dinner party. I eavesdropped at the window once and heard a tour guide spin the […]
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How to Use AI to Edit and Generate Stunning Photos
Hello! Welcome back to On Tech: A.I., a pop-up newsletter that teaches you about artificial intelligence, how it works and how to use it. In last week’s newsletter, I shared the golden prompts for getting the most helpful answers from chatbots like ChatGPT, Bing and Bard. Now that you’re familiar with the general principle of […]
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Book Review: ‘Swimmers,’ by Larry Sultan
From the early 1970s to the early ’80s, the conceptual artist and photographer Larry Sultan repeatedly outfitted himself with goggles, an underwater camera and a hand-held flash and submerged himself in community pools across the San Francisco Bay Area. Influenced by the images he found in a Red Cross manual, he photographed underwater scenes of […]
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‘The Pictures Are Miracles’: How Judith Joy Ross Finds Pain and Nobility in Portraits
In a room hung with empathetic black-and-white photographic portraits for her retrospective at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Judith Joy Ross, frail-looking and white-haired, was recently taking pictures for her next series. Posing a guard in front of her old-fashioned wooden view camera, she chattered on in an obscenity-laced monologue about her ineptitude. Seemingly to […]
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A.I. Photoshopping Is About to Get Very Easy. Maybe Too Easy.
Photoshop is the granddaddy of image-editing apps, the O.G. of our airbrushed, Facetuned media ecosystem and a product so enmeshed in the culture that it’s a verb, an adjective and a frequent lament of rappers. Photoshop is also widely used. More than 30 years since the first version was released, professional photographers, graphic designers and […]
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Want to be more present? Try taking out your phone
Join top executives in San Francisco on July 11-12, to hear how leaders are integrating and optimizing AI investments for success. Learn More Today, nearly everyone has a phone in their pocket, and there is zero cost to pulling it out and snapping a photo. Many of us snap away, collectively churning out over 1.4 […]
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The Supreme Court Says Andy Warhol’s 15 Minutes Are Up
“Many derivative works, including musical arrangements, film and stage adaptations, sequels, spinoffs, and others that ‘recast, transfor[m] or adap[t]’ the original add new expression, meaning or message, or provide new information, new aesthetics, new insights and understandings,” she wrote, quoting from a federal copyright statute. “That is an intractable problem for AWF’s interpretation of transformative […]
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Harry and Meghan Seek Both Privacy and Publicity After Paparazzi Car Chase
When Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, decamped Britain for the United States in 2020, he portrayed it as an act of survival against a relentlessly intrusive British press. On Tuesday, after a chaotic encounter with photographers in New York City, Harry found the media glare can be just as intense in his adopted home. […]
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Supreme Court Rules Against Andy Warhol in Copyright Case
The Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that Andy Warhol was not entitled to draw on a prominent photographer’s portrait of Prince for a series of images of the musician, limiting the scope of the fair-use defense to copyright infringement in the realm of visual art. The vote was 7 to 2. Justice Sonia Sotomayor, writing […]
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Canada’s ‘Most Photographed House’ May Meet the Wrecking Ball
Perched at the side of a country road near Lake Erie in southeastern Ontario, an uninhabited, partially collapsed 19th-century farmhouse cuts an eerily elegant figure against the wide-open sky and the corn, soybean and wheat fields that surround it. Over the years, the crumbling house, near Palmyra, Ontario, has become a destination for photographers like […]
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The Trees That Survived Hiroshima
My grandmother doesn’t talk about the bomb. Whenever I ask, she claims she doesn’t know what happened to her family, though I suspect she simply doesn’t want to think about it. She was 20 years old and living in Honolulu on the morning of Aug. 6, 1945, when the United States dropped a nuclear weapon […]
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Filmmaker Joel Coen Puts His Spin on the Photos of Lee Friedlander
It was a happy fallout of Covid. During the pandemic shutdown, the filmmaker Joel Coen and his wife, the actress Frances McDormand, hunkered down in their home on the Marin County coast of California. The photography dealer Jeffrey Fraenkel and his husband, Alan Mark, a real-estate consultant, relocated from San Francisco to their weekend house […]
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Bryant Park Studios: Luxuny Has Brought the Arts Back to 80 West 40th Street
On a recent Wednesday afternoon, as the sun turned the stained-glass skylight of a Midtown penthouse into a dazzling display of jewel tones, Prosecco was poured into flutes. A saxophonist and a violinist who had met moments earlier decided to play a Charlie Parker tune together. When they finished, a small, international and impeccably dressed […]
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‘Rear View,’ a Show About Butts, Is Forward Thinking
The four art dealers who trade together as LGDR have opened a gallery on East 64th Street with a preposterous inaugural exhibition — but before you take that the wrong way, remember the etymology. Preposterous, adjective: from the Latin prae-, meaning “before,” and posterus, or “coming after.” Something preposterous is turned the wrong way. It […]
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At Sandy Hook, Crime-Scene Investigators Saw the Unimaginable
Sitting with Karoline was Sam DiPasquale. As a special-agent bomb tech for the F.B.I., stationed in New Haven, Sam first responded to the shooter’s home on Yogananda Street to check for explosives. After he finished there, after running the robot down the hallway to the mother’s bedroom, where she lay shot dead, he went to […]
Read More At Sandy Hook, Crime-Scene Investigators Saw the Unimaginable
Sitting with Karoline was Sam DiPasquale. As a special-agent bomb tech for the F.B.I., stationed in New Haven, Sam first responded to the shooter’s home on Yogananda Street to check for explosives. After he finished there, after running the robot down the hallway to the mother’s bedroom, where she lay shot dead, he went to […]
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Sony World Photography Awards’ Creative Category Won By AI-generated Image
The Sony World Photography Awards recently crowned an image created by artificial intelligence as the winner of the Creative category. The photograph, titled Pseudomnesia: The Electrician, was created using OpenAI’s DALL-E 2 image generator by German photographer Boris Eldagsen. Eldagsen submitted the work intentionally to spark discussion about how AI-generated images are redefining the understanding […]
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Kwame Brathwaite, 85, Photographer With a Lens on Black Pride, Is Dead
The family moved to Harlem when Mr. Brathwaite was a child, before settling in the South Bronx. A standout student, he attended the School of Industrial Art (now the High School of Art and Design) in Manhattan. He was mulling a career in graphic design when, at 17, he saw a searing image that would […]
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See How Real AI-Generated Images Have Become
April 8, 2023 Seeing has not been believing for a very long time. Photos have been faked and manipulated for nearly as long as photography has existed. Now, not even reality is required for photographs to look authentic — just artificial intelligence responding to a prompt. Even experts sometimes struggle to tell if one is […]
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Why Pope Francis Is the Star of AI-Generated Photos
Pope Francis wearing a long, white puffer jacket inspired by Balenciaga. Francis rocking aviators and revving a motorcycle down a busy street. Francis turning the tables in a dim nightclub. Francis in a tactical vest, preparing to fly a fighter jet. Francis sharing a beer at Burning Man. Over the last few weeks, dozens of […]
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In Pristine Alaska, an Oil Giant Prepares to Drill for Decades
On the snowy tundra at the northernmost tip of the United States, more than two dozen yellow dump trucks wait on a glistening ice pad. It’s been just days since the Biden administration approved an $8 billion project to drill for oil in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska, the nation’s single largest expanse of […]
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Neal Boenzi, Top New York Times Photographer for Four Decades, Dies at 97
Neal Boenzi, a photographer who for more than 40 years at The New York Times deftly captured aspects of city life from firefighters fleeing a falling wall to a man walking a goose, died on Monday at an elder care facility in Newhall, Calif. He was 97. His daughter, Jeanette Boenzi, confirmed the death. Mr. […]
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One of the Luckiest Lightning Strikes Ever Recorded
Benjamin Franklin invented lightning rods in the 18th century, and the devices have been protecting buildings and people from the destructive forces of lightning ever since. But the details of how lightning rods function are still the subject of scientific research. Although modern lightning protection systems involve extra equipment that makes them more efficient, the […]
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When 4 Photographers Looked Up, This Is What They Saw
Spotted any faraway balloons or U.F.O.s lately? For this visual series, we asked four photographers to do what some of us have been doing more frequently: looking up. March 25, 2023 Balarama Heller When Balarama Heller got married last month in Tepoztlán, Mexico, a town known for reported U.F.O. sightings, he noticed one night a […]
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When the Light, Shadow and Stars Aligned: Standing Where Ansel Adams Stood
There was frost on the tent when we awoke at 5 a.m. As we climbed back up to the tripod location, the landscape felt newly familiar. All the uncertainty of the dark dissolved, like shadows in a nightmare. Now I saw the view as Adams had seen it. Although I couldn’t yet know for sure, […]
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Bob Dylan, at 81, Still Gives the Camera What It Wants
On a frigid New York afternoon in February 1963, Bob Dylan posed with his girlfriend at the time, Suze Rotolo, for the portrait that would appear as the cover of his second album, “The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan.” He had chosen his rumpled clothes with care, Ms. Rotolo noted in her memoir. The outfit included one […]
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Two Sports, Two Stories, Too Many Climbs
Times Insider explains who we are and what we do and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together. On the first day of our assignment in the Czech Republic, Nina Riggio, the intrepid, Vienna-based freelance photographer I was partnered with, told me that she had been a competitive climber and that she had […]
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A Photographer Frames His Own American South
For years, the photographer Tommy Kha hardly spoke to his mother, except for the occasional times they made portraits together at home in Memphis, Tenn. At times, the distance grew, turning mean. He was queer; she was disappointed. He left the South, first for grad school at Yale, then to New York City. But in […]
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Memphis, Through the Lens of Tyre Nichols
MEMPHIS — Steel bridges curving over calm water. Neon lights pulsing above blues clubs. A fiery sun melting into a bank of clouds. Through the lens of Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old aspiring photographer who loved skateboarding, Memphis was a landscape of unexpected color punctuated by moments of stillness. In 2020, Mr. Nichols moved to the […]
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