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Around The Horn
24 August 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 Ukrainian Independence Day, Lora Webb Nichols, MultiNerf, the Canon FTb QL and black-and-white editorial images.
- Today marks the 31st independence day for Ukraine. In Ukraine Under Attack: Documenting the Russian Invasion (gift link), photographers Lynsey Addario, David Guttenfelder, Mauricio Lima, Daniel Berehulak, Finbarr O'Reilly and Tyler Hicks continue to tell the story of Ukrainian resistance. NPR's The Picture Show features Carol Guzy's images of The Remnants of Everyday Life in Ukraine. And the Associated Press has also been Documenting Russia's Invasion of Ukraine.
- Lora Webb Nichols (1883-1962) lived in Engcampment, Wy., capturing Small-Town Life in Early 20th-Century America. She worked in the post office and founded the Encampment Echo newspaper and a soda fountain. Her 24,000 images, rediscovered in 2013, are archived at the American Heritage Center of the University of Wyoming in Laramie and an exhibition will be held at the Colorado Photographic Arts Center in Denver from Oct. 7 until Nov. 19.
- In Google Research AI Image Noise Reduction Is Out of This World, Haje Jan Kamps takes a look at MultiNerf, Google's open source project that processes "Raw image data and adds AI magic to figure out what footage 'should have' looked like without the distinct video noise generated by imaging sensors." Here's Google's demo:
- Kirk Tuck had to buy a Canon FTb QL to get the 50mm lens he craved. He looks into shooting film with the Canon again but is put off by the $25 a roll cost. And besides, "It was fun back then because I didn't know any better but from my perch here in the future I can only feel pity for the photographers of that age"
- In The Grifter in Chief's Dangerous Gambit (gift link), Michelle Cottle argues, "The G.O.P. may fancy itself the party of law and order, but Trump has endeavored to redefine which laws matter and what kind of order is legitimate." That subversion is echoed in the images accompanied the piece and that's what struck us. From a variety of sources, they are all rendered in black and white, reducing the red, white and blue of the flag to monotones. It's jarring but it reinforces her point. It's not America without respect for the law.
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