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Around The Horn
3 July 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 the Thompson Fire, sports, Logan White, Summit Magazine, photography apps and microfade testing.
- As the Thompson Fire Spreads in Oroville, Californians find insurers canceling home coverage and air quality as far away as the Bay area no better than moderate.
- The Associated Press presents its Weekly Global Sports Photo Gallery curated by photo editor Dan Derella in New York.
- Sophie Wright looks at Logan White's Hearts Content Road, a series of surreal medium-format portraits depicting girlhood in upstate New York. "Mainly photographing young women and girls, her pictures are imbued with a search for freedom amidst the restraints placed on the female body, shaped by her own experience as 'a young creative girl trying to express herself in the bible belt' for which she faced censorship and aggression," she writes.
- Heidi Volpe talks to Michael Levy about resurrecting Summit Magazine after the first year of publishing the new version. "I'm under no illusions that print will suddenly become the de facto distribution medium again or ever approach what it was in its heyday -- no one wants that or is saying that would be good!" he says. "But for delivering something different, for unplugging, for slowing down, for really absorbing a quality story and images ... it's hard to beat print for that."
- Jason Row lists the Best Photography Apps for your smartphone. "Apart from their portability, the great thing about these apps is that they are often inexpensive or even free," he writes.
- In Photography Testing, Testing, One, Two, Three, Erin Migdol explains how microfade testing can determine how exposure to light can affect a print. The current Getty exhibit Hippolyte Bayard: A Persistent Pioneer required testing of all of the prints because Bayard experimented with different chemical recipes in the late 1830s. Two prints, shown in the piece, were deemed too sensitive to be displayed. The exhibit runs through July 7.
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