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Around The Horn
10 October 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 the Israel-Hamas War, Eugène Atget, Montreal in monochrome, a five-story pagoda, old portraits, types of portrait photography, incomes, losing interest, a mouse pad and the Pixel 8.
- In Israel-Hamas War Escalates, the Guardian goes beyond the Middle East to show the reverberations of the conflict around the world. The Associated Press has more on the war today as well.
- Antares Wells is Walking the Streets of Turn-of-the-Century Paris with French photographer Eugène Atget. She discusses 10 of his photographs she has been cataloging from among the 200 the Getty Museum acquired in 2022. Eugène Atget: Highlights from the Mary and Dan Solomon Collection is on view at the Getty Center through Nov. 5.
- Kirk Tuck converted some of the images from his recent trip to Montreal into Monochromes.
- Harold Davis set up a tripod and stopped down his lens to capture the eaves of a Five-Story Pagoda. He's been posting a photo a day from his visit to Japan.
- In Instant Relatives and the Heritage Box, Mike Johnston visits the photo bin of an antique shop with his iPhone 13 Pro.
- Dahlia Ambrose surveys 23 Types of Portrait Photography. The piece inspired Calvin Amari's long comment that Johnston publishes as The Snapshooter, reprising an old piece of his own with that name.
- Rob Haggart continues his series on industry incomes with a Documentary Wedding Commercial Lifestyle Photographer who does 80 percent weddings and 20 percent commercial photography. And spends $5,000 t $10,000 a year on equipment upgrades.
- Thom Hogan wonders When Do You Stop Caring? By which he means upgrading. And if, at that point, you stop making photos. Or if your photography moves into the phone ecosphere because that's how we share images these days and cameras aren't nimble enough for that.
- In Taming a Hard Desktop, Jim Kasson solves a problem putting heavy cameras down on glass with a gaming mouse pad.
- Fake It 'Til You Fake It, Nick Heer argues, "The legacy of photography is a legacy of lies and liars." It's not just the Google Pixel 8's image manipulation capabilities, he writes.
More to come! Meanwhile, here's a look five years back. And please support our efforts...