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Around The Horn
13 January 2024
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 discarded Christmas trees, avalanche conditions, color photography and the parts of a camera.
- In The Party's Over, Douglas Zimmerman talks to Erik Burg about taking photos of the Christmas trees discarded on the curbs in San Francisco for 30 years. Berg has published a 112-page book of the images. "I just think there's something sad and pretty about capturing the trees where they were 'abandoned," he says.
- The Associated Press covers the Dangerous Avalanche Conditions at Lake Tahoe after a 66-year-old man died earlier this week. After Palisades Tahoe (formerly Squaw Valley) on Wednesday, Alpine Meadows was struck Thursday. Photos by Andy Barron and Mark Sponsler.
- In The Best Way to Be a Color Photographer, Mike Johnston identifies his favorite color photographers: Eliot Porter, Paul Outerbridge, Marie Cosindas, William Eggleston, Saul Leiter, Harry Gruyaert, Harold Mante, Robert Bergman, Raghubir Singh, Zoe Strauss and Fred Herzog. "They're sensitive to the color scheme; it's what they're looking at and it's on that level (at least) that the picture works," he writes.
- Viktor Elizarov diagrams and defines the Parts of a Camera. "These essential components, from the camera body to the lens, sensor and aperture, form the building blocks of the photographic process," he writes.
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