HeyJaredNotes of a MetaPhotographer
The potentials of photography and other visual media, including AI, after fifty years of writing, thinking, editing and experimenting in the field.
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A possible photographic renaissance? (opens the original)
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When people speak of AI-generated imagery that resembles photography a common assumption is that it has changed little beyond cleaning up the six-finger problem and other such imperfections. But in my experience it has been significantly altered, and with disappointing results.As an early practitioner I found that the mainstream AI systems that I was working with several years ago frequently responded to text prompts in idiosyncratic, even revelatory ways that I could not have anticipated. I was
Responding to September 11 (opens the original)
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In 1999 Carole Naggar and myself founded PixelPress in large part to explore new strategies for presenting imagery in what was then a relatively new digital environment. Based in New York City, we hosted an online publication and also worked extensively with humanitarian organizations on campaigns such as one to end polio throughout the world, another to help support children who were orphaned during the Rwandan genocide, and we also produced a major exhibition at the United Nations headquarters
Traumatizing children in the US (opens the original)
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Yesterday’s lead article in The Guardian is both infuriating and deeply painful:“About 1,900 kids who arrived in the US unaccompanied by a parent or guardian were under the federal government’s control across the country as of the end of August. From babies to teenagers, children have spent an average of 183 days – roughly six months – in shelters or long-term foster care, according to the government’
Trump’s Enabler -- part 2 (opens the original)
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As writer Michael M. Grymbaum recently described Robert Mapplethorpe’s 1981 photograph of Trump’s mentor Roy Cohn: “It is an arresting, menacing image: the scarred face of Roy M. Cohn, the notorious New York City lawyer, fixer and master of the political dark arts, floating bodiless in a pool of black, his hooded eyes staring directly back at the viewer.” Although quite different, it also deeply challenges Cohn as did the portrait by Mary Ellen Mark that I wrote about in another <a href="https:/
Awakening the Digital (opens the original)
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“Awakening the Digital,” an interview with me, was first published in Foam magazine in 2009. Given the chaotic state of media in which we now find ourselves, it seems relevant to go back to this conversation with Brian Palmer in order to gain some perspective on how we arrived here. At that time I was teaching at New York University and my book, After Photography,
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