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Around The Horn
1 August 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 Day 5 in Paris, Mitch Epstein, Beth Galton, Gabriele Seghizzi, reading, the Nikon Z f, love, standards, AI in DAM, the Apple Vision Pro and Public Work.
- The Associated Press covers Day 5 of the Paris Games. Reuters adds images of the Paris Olympics From Above.
- Kate Mothes showcases Mitch Epstein's ongoing series Old Growth. "From the world's most voluminous sequoias to the most ancient weathered and gnarled bristlecone pines -- which can live more than 4,000 years -- he captures remarkable stalwarts around the U.S.," she writes.
- Suzanne Sease features Memory of Absence, the personal project of Beth Galton. "In 2017, my mother and father -- who had not lived together for 50 years -- died within three days of each other," Galton writes. "I discovered many artifacts from my life of which I had no memory." She paired them with botanicals for this series.
- In Cheesy Pictures, Bryan Armen Graham features Gabriele Seghizzi's images of Italian gymnast Giorgia Villa poses with wheels of Parmigiano Reggiano. "More than 20 sponsored posts across Villa's social media channels have featured her showing off wheels, blocks and bite-size packets of the hard cheese," he writes.
- Melina Moe and Victoria Nebolsin present Scenes of Reading on the Early Portrait Postcard. "These portrait postcards present readers hunched over a book in a bar, reclined in a hospital bed and seated stiffly on a front porch," they write. "There are groups sharing a newspaper in the breakroom and young people with disregarded books on a picnic blanket. Some portraits suggest engrossed readers, while others show sitters who hold their book limply, like an unwanted package."
- Feroz Khan details What I Love About My Nikon Z f and What Could Be Better after 10 months. "Even as it currently is, it's still a spectacular camera for the price," he writes.
- In In It for Love, Mike Johnston features two reader comments that made him think. "The last 30 years have been a roller-coaster ride," he writes. "But a roller coaster isn't actually a journey."
- In The Gold Standard Is an Interesting Photograph, Kirk Tuck resists the classic holy grail of photography: a matted, doubleweight, fiber print. "I'm still a working photographer but I haven't shown a print or made a print in at least ten years," he writes. "Beveled mats are now the polyester leisure suits of art. Endless gray tones are the two dimensional translation of 'Father Knows Best.'"
- In The AI Revolution in Digital Asset Management: Promise vs Reality, Paul Melcher reports on a recent study by Santa Cruz Software. "The study's findings reveal a landscape where AI integration is still in its infancy," he writes. "Of the DAM vendors claiming to utilize AI, the vast majority have implemented only the most basic features."
- In Apple Vision Pro OMG, Kevin Raber reports on the free demo he enjoyed at his local Apple Store. "It won't be long before your iPhone is directly integrated into the Vision Pro and you'll be taking pictures and editing these photos all using the Vision Pro," he writes. "I strongly recommend that every photographer makes an appointment at their Apple local store and do the demo. I know you will be amazed by the experience."
- Public Work is "an image search engine that boasts 100,000 'copyright-free' images from institutions like the NYPL, the Met, etc.," write Jason Kottke. "It's fast with a relatively simple interface and uses AI to auto-categorize and suggest possibly related images (both visually and content-wise). And it's fun to just visually click around on related images." Search Yosemite for example.
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