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Around The Horn
27 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 AP's Week in Pictures, original Observer photography, Arlene Gottfried's archive, Gerry McCulloch, energy and legislating watermarks on AI images.
- The Associated Press showcases last Week in Pictures from around the globe. "Indian students pray, surfers take part in a big wave challenge, Palestinians flee from Khan Younis while Israeli women demand the release of the Israeli hostages, Taylor Swift reacts during a football game and a Hindu devotee gets his tongue pierced."
- Josy Forsdike features Original Observer Photography commissioned this month. The images range from Peter Capaldi on satire, politics and privilege to life as Hugh Hefner's wife in the Playboy Mansion.
- In Unboxing Thousands of Photos of New York City in the '70s and '80s (gift link), Corey Kilgannon reports on an effort to preserve street photographer Arlene Gottfried's archive. Gottfried's sister-in-law Dara Gottfried has enlisted the photographer Eryn DuChene to help digitize and organize the archive. "How her eye captures people and how she touches them, that's hard to explain," her late brother once said of her work. "It wasn't lucrative, but she did it for love of it," her sister-in-law said. "She sacrificed a lot for her art. She stuck with it and didn't sell out."
- Grace Holliday presents Gerry McCulloch's Anticipating the Indeterminate, shot on an iPhone 15. It depicts a blurred figure seated on the other side of a frosted window. "Not knowing anything about the figure is an important part of the photo," he says. "They remain an unspoken story in the fabric of our everyday surroundings."
- In The Patron Saint of Photographers, Mike Johnston admires Ansel Adams for his energy. "He worked really hard and really smart for most of his life and accomplished a lot in many areas," he writes. "Energetic indeed."
- Titus Wu reports California Lawmakers Push for Watermarks on AI-Made Photo, Video. At least five different lawmakers are devising watermark requirements while tech groups caution against over-regulation.
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