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Around The Horn
5 February 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 Edward Burtynsky, Michael Robinson Chávez, Jaisingh Nageswaran, year end statistics, wide angle monochromes, a Vision Pro FAQ, digitizing slides and Samsung's notion of reality.
- In Photos Document the Devastating Impacts of Industry, Grace Ebert showcases four decades of Edward Burtynsky's work from Extraction/Abstraction, the largest survey of his work to date opening this month at Saatchi Gallery in London.
- In Awaiting the Rain, two-time Pulitzer Prize winning photographer for The Washington Post Michael Robinson Chávez reflects on the visual diary of Peru he has produced over several decades.
- In I Feel Like a Fish, Marigold Warner profiles Jaisingh Nageswaran, who combines new and archival images to create "a tender and poignant reflection on family history, his childhood memories and caste-based discrimination in India."
- In The Year End Statistics Summary, Thom Hogan graphs the numbers to present a picture you won't see elsewhere. "Overall, we're still trying to ascertain whether the modest growth since the pandemic-challenged 2020 drop is real growth or not," he writes. "I'd say not." It's the higher prices of more expensive cameras.
- Kirk Tuck thinks Wide Angle Views Benefit the Most from shooting black-and-white after putting a TTArtisan 21mm f1.5 lens on his Leica SL2.
- Jason Snell answers quite A Few Early Vision Pro Questions.
- A Reddit poster asks the eternal question: How to Digitize Hundreds, if Not Thousands, of Slides? And you get the eternal answers, too, from cheap scanners to expensive ones to macro lenses on a dSLR. But each comes with a little real-world story.
- In 'There Is No Such Thing as a Real Picture', Sean Hollister quotes Samsung executive Patrick Chomet. "As soon as you have sensors to capture something, you reproduce [what you're seeing] and it doesn't mean anything," Chomet argues. "There is no real picture." Nice try.
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