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Around The Horn
11 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 Alisa Martynova, Louis Stettner, Book of Monsters, personalizes office spaces, Iceland's waterways, a Weston Master V and astrophotography file naming.
- In Nowhere Near -- Liminal Spaces of Migration, Sophie Wright features portraits by Alisa Martynova of "migrants who have come from Africa to Italy and France, set against enigmatic nocturnal landscapes." Each migrant is a "star" forming a constellation with other migrants. "Countering populist rhetoric on the issue of migration and static representations of those affected by it, Martynova wanted to draw attention to the many reasons one might choose to leave their homeland," Wright writes.
- Real Lives features images from a new monograph of the work of Louis Stettner with 190 photographs from his career, featuring his images of New York and Paris; the architecture of Penn Station, the Brooklyn Bridge and the New York City subway; and candids of the people who inhabit the large cities he frequented.
- Public Domain Review has posted images from David and Marian Fairchild's Book of Monsters from 1914. The pair used a long cardboard extension tube to create some of the earliest macrophotographs of tiny creatures in their backyard just north of Chevy Chase, Md. "Larger specimens could be photographed with tubes five or eight feet long, smaller ones needed up to twenty feet!" PDR notes, along with an image showing one. "A magnesium flash prevented unwanted shadows and the specimen was shaded from bright sun by a sheet of glass covered in tissue."
- Suzanne Sease showcases Personal Space, the personal project of Kremer/Johnson "inspired by a New York Times article on large companies encouraging employees to personalize their office spaces to draw them back post-pandemic."
- In Iceland's 'Glacial Flour' Pulsing Through Waterways, Kate Mothes features Jan Erik Waider's images of that country's "undulating waterways, capturing flows and oxbows from the air with a drone."
- Jason Row inherits a Weston Master V light meter from his late uncle. "So how do you use a 50-year-old light meter and more importantly, how does it stack up against today's modern, high-tech cameras?" he asks. Well, only his 50-year-old meter can measure incident light. But is that useful these days?
- Trying to solve a problem with Column View in the Finder, an astrophotographer details his file naming scheme. "Being able to see the type of frame (Light, Dark, Bias, Flat), the target, the filter you used, right there in the file name is important," he writes. "Also the temperature of the cooled camera is important because calibration frames have to be taken at the same temperature and cooling can fail for different reasons including but not limited to actual bugs (insects) crawling into the camera through the vent and interfering with the fan." He adds a suffix to the file name for each data operation performed on the image file.
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