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Around The Horn
18 May 2021
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 the Westerbork Film, Hackney, the Path Blur filter, Brett Williams Childs, Epson's new EcoTank printers, teaching photography and Michael Reichmann remembered.
- In Children of the Holocaust Who Are Anonymous No More, Nina Siegal writes about an enhanced version of the Westerbork Film shot in 1944 by Werner Rudolf Breslauer, a German-Jewish inmate of the Nazi transit camp from which Dutch Jews were deported to death camps in occupied Poland and Germany. Researchers have begun to identify the people in the film "providing a more detailed, personal view of lives ravaged by the Holocaust," she writes. The film will be released at the memorial camp tomorrow. Breslauer was deported with his family to Theresienstadt in 1944 before being sent to Auschwitz. He was murdered in 1945. His wife and two sons were gassed in Auschwitz but his daughter Ursula survived the war.
- Home Sweet Hackney presents photographs by the London residents of "a diverse group of community-minded people." The images are part of the #HackneyIsHome project by Autograph, a visual arts charity.
- Julieanne Kost returns to her 3, 2, 1, Photoshop! series with Simulate a Long Exposure With the Path Blur Filter:
- Heidi Volpe interviews Brett Williams Childs about his (very) low-key portrait series Against Monolith which "the struggle of maintaining individuality in a much larger social structure." Lorna Roth's paper about Kodak's Shirley cards inspired him to think about skin tones as he studied photography.
- In Things Are About to Change, Kevin Raber muses about Epson's new EcoTank printers for lab-quality photos and professional graphics. "It's about time we get away from the annoying ink cartridge way of printing," he writes.
- Becoming a Photography Teacher includes some interesting advice from current teachers and an appraisal of arts education in general. You can probably guess.
- Five years ago Michael Reichmann, who founded The Luminous Landscape passed away. His son Josh, who now runs the site, writes of him and Michael Johnston posted a few kind words as well.
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