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Around The Horn
18 January 2023
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 drive-ins, icicles, Jack Lueders-Booth, Joe McNally, Louis Fleckenstein, Z system advice, PhotoPills, Howard Oakley, a $137,175 contract and Isaac Newton.
- At the Drive-In: 1970s Roadside Movies features Steve Fitch's black-and-white shots of drive-in theaters across America. The images are on exhibit at the Joseph Bellows Gallery in California until March 4.
- Jasenka Grujin showcases 21 Magical Photos of Icicles. Get 'em while they're hot. Not.
- In The End of Boston's Dirty, Dangerous Orange Line, Graeme Green features Jack Lueders-Booth's of a woman and her two children under a section of the elevated railway marked for demolution. "I think all photographs of troubled mothers with small children find a precedent in Dorothea Lange's iconic 1936 Migrant Mother photo," Lueders-Booth writes.
- In Teaching With Friends, Joe McNally reprises his portraits of coal miners he captured with photographer Bill Fortney.
- In The Photographer in My Family, Holly Nelson visits the Getty's Department of Photographs study room with her sister to look over 85 of the 5,000 photographs in the collection by Louis Fleckenstein, their great-grandmother’s cousin.
- Thom Hogan offers Some Basic Z System Camera Advice for both DX and FX sensors. Eminently sensible advice at that. He's having cataract surgery on his second eye at the moment.
- Kevin Raber finds A Boost of Inspiration in the free PhotoPills Awards 2022 Legacy PDF book. "PhotoPills is one of the most helpful photography apps out there, and it works beautifully on iPhone, iPad as well as Google devices," he adds.
- Is Apple Checking Images We View in the Finder? Howard Oakley runs some tests to find out.
- Bryan Sheffield negotiates a $137,175 contract for Travel Photography for a Large Financial Institution that required eight shooting days. He added $2,500 for over 20 hours of post production work including "culling images, global curves, simple color balance needs and export to jpg for client review and backup." And $125/hour retouching for up to 50 images.
- Jennifer Quellette reports a Collector Discovered Isaac Newton's Lost Personal Copy of Opticks published in 1704 and a major contribution to optical science. It will be up for sale at the Rare Books San Francisco Fair on Feb. 3 to 5 for an estimate half a million dollars.
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