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Around The Horn
8 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 Wimbledon, 1950s commuters, Tokyo's oldest train line, water tanks, automation, the Bluetti AC70 power station and a mystery photo.
- Sarah Lee photographs A Day at Wimbledon with a twinkle in her eye.
- Tim Adams highlights Louis Stettner on Commuters in 1950s New York with one image from a new monograph to be published by Thames & Hudson in September. "The collection traces the ways in which he developed a profound kind of empathy. Much of this, he later suggested, dated back to being a combat photographer during the second world war, an experience that gave him a deep sense of connection with 'my fellow countrymen -- fishermen, industrial workers, storekeepers -- whom I had previously only brushed up against in Times Square,'" he writes.
- Richard A. Brooks captures the action on Tokyo's Oldest Train Line, the 22-mile circular JR Yamanote line, which has been in service since 1885.
- Grace Ebert features Rajesh Vora's photographs of the Sculptural Water Tanks on Punjabi homes on view now for the Rencontres d'Arles festival. "Up through September 29, Everyday Baroque features dozens of images of the playful, idiosyncratic sculptures that characterize the landscape across hundreds of Punjabi villages," she writes.
- Do You Know What's Automated and How? asks Thom Hogan. "I could write a dissertation on all the 'automation' that is undocumented or even mostly unknown that comes into play with both our cameras and our post processing workflows," he writes.
- Derrick Story reviews the Bluetti AC70 Power Station, a 22.5 lb., 1,000W-rated, two-outlet unit that's "beefy enough to serve as a backup power source at home and mobile enough to run an entire campsite on the road."
- Mike Johnston divulges the identity of the handsome fellow "later be immortalized in literature" in his Mystery Pic.
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