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Around The Horn
20 December 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 Frances B. Johnston, Ana María Arévalo, Extreme E, Jupiter, Charles Brittin, a Peruvian lily, photography books, stopping down, four photographers and fine art printing.
- Richard B. Woodward profiles Frances B. Johnston (gift link), "one of the first women in the United States to enjoy a long and fruitful career as a professional photographer" who had "so indelible a personality that it is hard to believe that she could ever have been forgotten." Not to be missed (or forgotten).
- In Sinfonía Desordenada, Ana María Arévalo Gosen photographs how members of the Venezuelan orchestra La Gran Mariscal de Ayacucho dealt with the pandemic. "I decided to go to each of their houses to see how this magnificent music was being made individually from home, but also to show how an orchestral musician lives in the country and how they played together live after so long," she says.
- In Fast, Furious and Futuristic -- Extreme E, Tom Jenkins photographs the mud-splattered competition for electric SUVs. "This new concept of racing is designed to shine the spotlight on the climate crisis by holding races in remote parts of the world affected," he writes.
- Maria Luisa Paúl reports NASA Releases New Photos of Jupiter. Among Juno spacecraft's recent findings "are photos from inside the planet's ring, a map of its magnetic field, details of its atmosphere and a trippy soundtrack from a spacecraft's travels around one of its moons," she writes.
- In What Can Radical Protest Look Like?, Alex Jones peeks into the archive of activist-photographer Charles Brittin. "Brittin's photographs, housed at the Getty Research Institute, are visual testaments to Los Angeles during the Civil Rights and Black Power Eras," he writes. "Here, the photographer operates as an active conspirator with those seeking to dismantle systems of oppression."
- Harold Davis presents Petals on a Plate from a Peruvian lily. "Compared to other flower petals, they seem to work particularly well with light coming through them, backlit on a light box," he writes.
- Donny Bajohr, Jeff Campagna and Quentin Nardi list The Ten Best Photography Books of 2021. "From LA's lowrider culture to birds to scenes of silence, the subjects have been all-over-the-world diverse," they note.
- Derrick Story's post mortem on a fail image reminds him that sometimes You Need to Stop Down, especially when shooting close up.
- Mike Johnston lists Four Photographers You Might Not Know, submitted by readers. Later today he's also launching a print sale of some of his own work.
- Kevin Raber takes us Behind the Scenes where he's been working on new Fine Art Printing workshops with Jeff Schewe, Epson's Dan Steinhardt and Colorbyte's John Pannozzo. "We covered almost all aspects of the printing process," he writes.
More to come! Meanwhile, here's a look five years back. And please support our efforts...