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10 June 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 Dorothea Lange, protest photos, John Topham, behind Adobe's Premium Presets, Android monochrome apps and newborn photography trends.
- In Photographer Dorothea Lange's California, Then and Now, poet Tess Taylor and Getty photographs curator Mazie Harris discuss Dorothea Lange's career, iconic images and continuing impact.
- Ramenda Cyrus analyzes How the George Floyd Uprising Was Framed for White Eyes by examining two protest images, one from 1963 and the other from 2020. His images document the "ordinary way of life of ordinary people ... the little things of life, the way it really was."
- England at War, Work and Play shows John Topham's monochrome captures from the 1920s through the end of the second world war.
- In Meet the Photographers Crafting Our New Premium Presets, Benjamin Warde introduces the eight photographers behind Adobe's new Premium Presets released with the June updates.
- Kehl Bayern lists seven Android Apps for Black and White Photography. "One thing about most of these apps that we found while reviewing them is that each one does something better than the others and few of them do everything in a spectacular fashion," he writes.
- Jack Yu details Five Newborn Photography Trends spotted by photographers Ana Brandt and JoJo Cooper. "Together, Brandt and Cooper represent the two defining sides of today's newborn photography industry: still life and lifestyle," he writes.
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