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Around The Horn
30 July 2022
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 Atlantic's photos of the week, the AP's photos of the same week, Herman Heukels, a great shot, Steph Chambers and Studio Display audio issues.
- Alan Taylor presents 35 Photos of the Week that include a lake dive in Bosnia, a giant chessboard in India, racing on the Senegal River, an earthquake in the Philippines, a rocket attack in Ukraine, the winner of the Tour de France in Paris, NASCAR in Pennsylvania, celebrations for the founding of the Aztec empire in Mexico, wildfires in Greece and France and more.
- The AP Week in Pictures includes Pope Francis's visit to Canada to apologize to Indigenous peoples for the abuses committed by Catholic missionaries, Donald Trump taking part in the Bedminster Invitational LIV Golf tournament, a Ukrainian servicewoman writing her wishes to children in the U.S. on a Ukrainian flag inside a frontline bomb shelter in Kharkiv region and more. Same week as above, BTW.
- In Photos That Helped to Document the Holocaust Were Taken by a Nazi (gift link), Nina Siegal reports on recent interest in Herman Heukels, a press photographer for the Dutch S.S. whose work provides some of the strongest visual evidence used by historians to illustrate the Holocaust in the Netherlands, which took the lives of more than 102,000 of the estimated 140,000 Jewish civilians who lived in the country before World War II. That wasn't his plan, though. "He intended to depict Jews in a demeaning light," she writes. "We need to move away from the idea that a photograph is just a window on the world. It isn't. It's a very edited version of what the photographer chose to photograph." said Janina Struk, author of Photographing the Holocaust.
- Kirk Tuck one of those times the universe tosses you A Soft, Slow Pitch. He was ready for it. The girl's smile is so charming it took us a while to look at what was perched on her finger.
- Mike Johnston was impressed by the sports photography of Steph Chambers, who caught Syndey McLaughlin 400 hurdles run (the event was outlawed in California high schools as too dangerous when we ran hurdles). High speed frame rates are a blessing. "But you still have to know what you're after and where you'll find it, where you need to be to get it and which frame got it," he writes.
- Michael Tsai covers a few Studio Display Audio Issues. Apparently a monitor with a CPU requires a restart itself now and then to clear up problems with the camera, speakers and microphone. That didn't work for Keyboard Maestro maestro Peter N Lewis. "To resolve it, I had to shut the display down, remove the power, and leave it for an extended period of time (I left it off overnight)," he writes in the comments.
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