Clowns and crowdsurfers: Manchester Punk festival 2024 – in pictures
news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Monday, 1 April, 2024 - 11:30
MPF is a progressive punk festival that plays to a younger crowd. It promotes startup/DIY bands led by women, people of colour and LGBTQ+ people by putting them on the same stage as more established acts
Continue reading...Trade body urges removal of Playboy centrefold test image from members’ journals
news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Sunday, 31 March, 2024 - 16:55
Lena Forsén’s picture has been used as reference photo since the 1970s, but Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers says it now breaches code of ethics
Cropped from the shoulders up, the Playboy centrefold of Swedish model Lena Forsén looking back at the photographer is an unlikely candidate for one of the most reproduced images ever.
Shortly after it was printed in the November 1972 issue of the magazine, the photograph was digitised by Alexander Sawchuk, an assistant professor at the University of California, using a scanner designed for press agencies. Sawchuk and his engineering colleagues needed new images to test their processing algorithms. Bored with TV test images, they turned to the centrefold, defending its choice by noting that it featured a face and a mixture of light and dark colours. Fortunately, the limits of the scanner meant that only the top five inches were scanned, with just Forsén’s bare shoulder hinting at the nature of the original picture.
Continue reading...Photography bursary launched in memory of Guardian’s Eamonn McCabe
news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Sunday, 31 March, 2024 - 11:00
Royal Photographic Society says award reflects the support and encouragement McCabe showed for aspiring photographers
A bursary focusing on the theme of sporting endeavour and designed to help talented young photographers has been launched in honour of the memory of the award-winning Guardian and Observer photographer Eamonn McCabe.
The bursary, established by The Royal Photographic Society (RPS), The Guardian and Observer and McCabe’s family will give £3,000 to a photographer aged 25 or under to produce a project.
Continue reading...Artistic unicorns, protest ceramics and queer art from Morocco – the week in art
news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Friday, 29 March, 2024 - 11:42
Greenham Common inspires a new generation, designer Enzo Mari gets playful and Perth Museum dedicates its first exhibition to a mythical beast prized since antiquity – all in your weekly dispatch
Unicorn
Medieval bestiaries, Renaissance art and narwhal horns make for a fascinating first exhibition in this
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Perth Museum, Perth
, 30 March to 22 September
Week in wildlife – in pictures: pedalo hijinks and a raccoon doing a handstand
news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Friday, 29 March, 2024 - 08:00
A pushy squirrel and Putin with night vision: photos of the day – Thursday
news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Thursday, 28 March, 2024 - 13:39
Rare and raw: never before seen Rolling Stones – in pictures
news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Thursday, 28 March, 2024 - 07:00
In 1981, photographer Brian Aris was invited to join the rock’n’roll legends at rehearsals in Boston. He captured their intense musical bond – but couldn’t corner Charlie Watts
Continue reading...From a graceful turn to a dangerous toy: the World Nature Photography awards 2024 – in pictures
news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Thursday, 28 March, 2024 - 03:04
The World Nature Photography award winners have been announced from a pool of entries from all corners of the globe – including a baby elephant in Kenya and an owl-like plant in Thailand. The top award and cash prize of $1,000 went to Tracey Lund from the UK for her image of two gannets under the water off the coast of the Shetland Islands. Lund and her fellow winners were drawn from thousands of images
Continue reading...Signs of spring and a wily coyote – readers’ best photos
news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Wednesday, 27 March, 2024 - 16:00
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