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24 November 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 Ken Light, wedding rings, famous movie cars, MLB, Manjari Sharma, Raw captures and a code-signing fix.
- In Midnight La Frontera, Gregory Eddi Jones reviews Ken Light's nighttime photos of migrants captured n the U.S.-Mexico border over 30 years. Published earlier this year, the book of the same name includes 66 plates on 136 images. Light, UC Berkeley Journalism's Logan professor of photography, has just published Picturing Resistance: Moments and Movements of Social Change From the 1950s to Today featuring photojournalism from the front lines of the civil rights, women's, environmental and disability rights movements. Ivan Natividad interviewed him last month.
- In Rescuers Recover Migrants' Wedding Rings Lost at Sea, Lorenzo Tonda reports a photo of the rings in the Italian newspaper La Repubblica helped the charity Doctors Without Borders return them to a newlywed Algerian couple.
- In The Car's the Star, the Guardian presents a few black-and-white images of famous movie cars from the book Cars on Film: A Celebration of Cars at the Movies by Giles Chapman.
- In MLB During Covid-19: Behind the Scenes With the New York Yankees, New York Yankee reliever Adam Ottavino captured the season with an iPhone and a Leica M240.
- Heidi Volpe interviews photographer Manjari Sharma, who moved to the U.S. from India when she was 21 and has spent half her life here. "I am guided by American inquiry but I assess my work from an inner core that is rooted in Indian culture," Sharma says.
- In As Raw as Your Eye, Dave Williams writes, "As for today's insight into what I find important in photography, however, I want to talk about eyes. The heading suggests something about shooting Raw and what I want to do is touch on comparisons between these two things." It's a nice introduction to why you'd want to shoot Raw.
- Apple's release of Big Sur has broken its code-signing service for High Sierra apps, of all things. In App Store Apps Failing to Install on High Sierra, there's a fix reported.
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