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Around The Horn
3 July 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 Love Songs, three little girls, the Grant Park 220, Nico Froehlich, Anthimos Ntagkas, Kevin Raber, Houston Cofield, the Congo, McNally's fireworks, Happytecture, Hogan's answers and Tuck's sad walk.
- In Love and Loss Through the Photographer's Lens (gift link), Arthur Lubow reviews Love Songs: Photography and Intimacy, on view at the International Center of Photography. "Intimacy is difficult to capture in a photo," he writes. "Love Songs is as much about what photography can't do as about what it can."
- In Mystery of Holocaust Escape Girls Solved After 84 Years, Jo Lonsdale and Jane Downs relate how the identity of the "three little girls" photographed fleeing Nazi Germany at London's Liverpool station were finally discovered. As well as the photographer who photographed them.
- The Guardian presents images of the Grant Park 220, NASCAR's stock car race through downtown Chicago won by Shane van Gisbergen in a memorable finish.
- In South of the River, Joanna Cresswell looks at Nico Froehlich's project of the same name. "As a child of immigrants, I have vivid memories of being embarrassed by how my mother would decorate our home and how she dressed," he says. "As an adult and as a photographer, however, I am constantly seeking out everything that reminds me of my childhood -- everything I once tried to obscure."
- In Street Photographer's Photos Demonstrate Life's Strange Visual Coincidences, Jessica Stewart interviews Anthimos Ntagkas about capturing his amusing juxtapositions. "Luckily the themes in this type of photography are endless and I never lose interest," he says.
- Kevin Raber was Exploring an Abandoned Hospital in the Palouse last month with two workshops. In part one of this two-parter, he writes about using a Sony and his iPhone at an abandoned hospital.
- In The War Against Drag And Why Drag Is Winning, Michael Shaw and Cara Finnegan analyze a photo taken by Houston Cofield for Politico:
- Displaced by the M23 features Hugh Kinsella Cunningham's images documenting conditions in the eastern border region of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
- Joe McNally covers Summer, the Fourth of July and Fireworks along with "the hot dogs, the beer, the ball game and the sunscreen."
- Kate Mothes features images from Daniel Rueda and Anna Devís's new book Happytecture. "By precisely matching patterns or embellishing with bows, they add new meaning to existing designs and challenge us to see our surroundings differently," she writes. The new title collects images from the last several years.
- In More Reader Questions Answered, Thom Hogan tackles cellular radios in cameras, downgrading to a smartphone and Apple Vision Pro.
- Kirk Tuck takes a Sad Walk Through Downtown when a street person he has known loses his best friend.
More to come! Meanwhile, here's a look five years back. And please support our efforts...