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Around The Horn
14 July 2018
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at Emily Kinni, tragic snapshots, shooting many frames and home movies.
- In Intimate Portraits of Just-Released Inmates Leaving Prison, Miss Rosen presents images from Emily Kinni's series The Bus Stop . On release, each inmate receive a $50 check, church-donated clothes and an onion bag for luggage.
- In Old Snapshots Are Tragic, Mike Johnston reflects on two black-and-white images. Janet Malcolm tells the story of one of them in A Work of Art. She slipped a snapshot into her Diana and Nikon among the works of art and nobody (hardly) noticed. The other, though, will give you pause. In My Grandmother's Desperate Choice, Kate Daloz accompanies the story of her grandmother's abortion during World War II with a happy snapshot of her playing with her children in the snow. "So many old photographs are essentially tragic, if we take the time to really think about them," Johnston writes. Well, life itself is tragic, we might reply. The only antidote is our empathy for others.
- In a piece that should be titled Why I Shoot So Many Frames, Kirk Tuck explains his preference for shooting "something like 100+ images for a "simple" (no such thing) portrait or somewhere north of a 1,000+ images for a two hour dress rehearsal of a live theater production." Good thing the film era is but a memory.
- Home Movies is the home of The National Archive of Family Film, founded over 10 years ago "with the aim of saving and transmitting amateur and family cinema, a hidden and inaccessible audiovisual heritage." The site is in Italian (L'Archivio Nazionale del Film di Famiglia is the actual name) but home movies tend to be in the universal language of silent film. Here's a charming little beach clip from the 1950s.
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