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Around The Horn
29 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 Albert Hadda, Gillian Laub, Evelyn Hofer, Yulia Skogoreva, Clara Vannucci, F-mount production, dials snf the Leica Q2.
- Jim Powell and Vanessa Thorpe present Newly Discovered Clandestine Photographs of the Holocaust's Upheaval and Terror. Architect and amateur photographer Albert Hadda photographed Jewish families being forced to leave their homes in Breslau, then a German city, now Wrocław in Poland.
- Photographing the Last of the Holocaust Survivors (gift link) covers Gillian Laub's photo archive of over 200 survivors. On Saturday, some of those portraits were projected onto buildings and structures throughout New York City.
- In Photos That Capture the Soul of 1960s Dublin (gift link), Erica Ackerberg shares a few images from Steidl's Dublin, which reprints German-born photographer Evelyn Hofer's photos of the city first published in 1967. Hofer described Dublin as an island "crowded with people who seem to live a life full of fantasies, imagination, talk -- yet lonely, suspicious of each other, on the defensive -- and yet more able to remain within themselves."
- In Salt and Tears, Marigold Warner follows Russian photographer Yulia Skogoreva as she documents the little-known world of female sumo wrestling, which only exists at the amateur level. "In Japan, there are so many stereotypes about how women should behave," Skogoreva says.
- In Born Twice, photographer Clara Vannucci tells the story of Edoardo, who has undergone gender surgery to become a man, making him able to fulfill his dream of following in his father's footsteps as a gondolier.
- Thom Hogan addressed the rumor that Nikon F-mount products are out of production in When Is a Product Out of Production? "Overall, do I believe Nikon has stopped all F-mount production as the rumor said?," he asks. "No."
- In Touch Versus Dials, Hogan asks why "younger folks" are smitten by cameras with dials. "Dials are great for learning (and controlling) some clear basic photography tasks, tasks that are even more important the larger the image sensor is and the more singular the capture is (e.g. opposite of phones)," he writes.
- Kirk Tuck takes his Leica Q2 out for some Monochromes and Color Images.
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