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Around The Horn
21 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 Danuri, Dayanita Singh, Filter, black-and-white JPEGs, High Plains Farm, Pictures From Home, archives and no photos of Putin bathing this year.
- South Korea's lunar probe Danuri is orbiting 62 miles above the surface of the Moon taking a striking few black-and-white photos. Compare to the first black-and-white photograph taken by a human of Earth from the Moon.
- In Dayanita Singh's Hands-On Photography, Siddhartha Mitter reviews Dancing With My Camera at the Villa Stuck museum in Munich through March 19. "The exhibition showcases Singh's inventive production and display techniques, too: hinged teak structures, displaying multiple photographs, that can be moved around and reconfigured; towers of cubes with images on all sides; boxes of swappable image cards; and hybrid 'book objects' that work equally well on the wall or in the museum store," she writes. "You cannot buy her work in signed and numbered silver prints. Instead, she collaborates with the German publisher Steidl, using offset printing techniques to produce photograph collections, some stacked in wooden boxes, that the buyer can shuffle and combine — making the work affordable and, in Singh's view, alive." With images by Saumya Khandelwal.
- Jonathan Blaustein has posted the second installment of The Best Work I Saw at Filter. This one includes Yvette Marie Dostatni, Meg Griffiths, Jeff Schewe and Grace Tenneh Kromah.
- In Yesterday's Adventures, Kirk Tuck shows a gallery of black-and-white JPEGs made at the same time as his color DNG captures. He just added a preset "because the one thing I think most out-of-camera black and white images need is a bit more contrast."
- Mike Johnston notes that the last copies of the first edition of High Plains Farm by Paula Chamlee are for sale by the artist. "I think it's fair to say that it's one of the best books of authentic Americana; of the West; of Texas; of large format; of documentary photography; and on the subject of home," he writes. "I also love the essays in it."
- In Nathan Lane's New Play Is Photography Brought Alive, Rebecca Bengal explores Pictures From Home, an adaptation of Larry Sultan's photo book about his parents by the playwright Sharr White, creator of the Netflix series Halston. In addition to Sultan's photographs from the project, Alec Soth took photographs of the rehearsals.
- A Reddit poster announces I'm Dying and I Don't Know What to Do With My Archives. The archives contain over two decades of documentary and street photography, among others. Some intriguing replies and good advice about labeling images.
- Diego Mendoza reports There Will Be No Photos of Putin Bathing in Freezing Water This Year. The world mourns.
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