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Around The Horn
18 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 wooden chairs, Annie Leibovitz, good enough, Jason Snell's Photos book and smiles.
- Grace Ebert features A Sprawling Nest of Vintage Wooden Chairs falling down the Liaigre architectural firm's facade in Paris by Tadashi Kawamata, who also photographed the sculpture. "The towering work perches on the side of the Liaigre architecture firm and winds inside the Paris studio, creating a spiral maze of wooden chairs and furniture that flows between the facade and interior," she writes.
- Annie Leibovitz, Now an Empty-Nester, Lists Upper West Side Duplex (gift link) for $8.6 million, notes Vivian Marino. Photos of the place are by Evan Joseph with one by Leibovitz.
- In Your 'Good Enough' Is Not My 'Good Enough', Thom Hogan celebrates the optimal over the satisfactory. "Be careful with declaring something 'good enough'," he writes. "This is essentially saying that it probably has flaws, but you either can't see them or will ignore them."
- Jason Snell has published the third edition of Take Control of Photos covering "the many features of Apple's Photos app on Mac, iPad and iPhone, with advice on navigating the interface, editing your images, searching your library like a pro, syncing with iCloud Photos, sharing photos with others and creating photo books." Snell adds, "Among the new items covered are photo stickers, the upgraded People & Pets albums, Apple Watch changes, custom iPad lock screen features, new Photos widgets and the new features introduced in the iPhone 15 models." Available as a 208-page PDF or EPUB, it's priced at $14.99.
- In Say Prunes! Antares Wells tackles an age-old question. Why don’t people smile in old photographs? Fifteen second exposures didn't help but social norms were persuasive. "Smiling widely and showing your teeth wasn't a good look for anyone who wanted to be considered a serious person," she writes.
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