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Around The Horn
2 March 2020
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 Israel, cliff diving, Sony World Photography Awards, Shawn Walker, camera profiling, the Canon RF 85mm f1.2L DS, misconceptions, LensRentals, trade shows and Studio Dog.
- In A Land Divided: the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Stephanie Wade presents the documentary images of French photographer Clément Chapillon. "The surface of this land is like a scripture made of lines and points: one can read intentions, emotions and a kind of inner life," Chapillon says. "This land is also a palimpsest which bears the traces of all the civilizations it has welcomed and the wars they have waged."
- In Composing a Composite -- Cliff Diver, Ron Gentry captures a multi-shot image of a cliff diver at La Quebrada where the dive is off a 135-foot cliff.
- The World Photography Organization has announced the 69 winners from the National & Regional Awards of the Sony World Photography Awards 2020.
- The Library of Congress announced its acquisition of the Photography Archive of Shawn Walker and a Collection of Harlem Photography Workshop. The Shawn Walker archive contains nearly 100,000 photographs, negatives and transparencies depicting life in Harlem between 1963 and the present. Selections from the collection will be digitized but Walker maintains rights to his images during his lifetime and that of his wife.
- In Profiling a GFX 100 With X-Rite CC Camera Calibration, Jim Kasson draws five conclusions about the ordeal.
- Zach Sutton reviews the Canon RF 85mm f1.2L DS With Defocus Smoothing. "Canon's creme de la creme of prime lenses" left him feeling conflicted. Incredible sharpness at an inflated price.
- Thom Hogan tackles some Misconceptions on Camera Communication. By which he means the tech to share photos, which is still largely missing on cameras although a standard on phones since Day One.
- In How LensRentals Reached a Million Orders, Roger, Ryan and Erik walk through the history of LensRentals, remembering how it started in a garage and spare basement before becoming the largest rental house in America.
- Derrick Story explains Why I Want Photography Trade Shows to Survive. "I know that photography trade shows are not the most practical expenditure of funds for visitors or exhibitors. But there's an element of magic to them," he writes.
- In Rest in Peace, Studio Dog, Kirk Tuck eulogizes his companion of a dozen years.
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