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Around The Horn
6 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 sportsmanship, Bangladesh, Olympic surfing, Day 10 in Paris, Shane Hamman, Brendon Burdon, Edmond Leong, Harold Davis, melting Swiss glaciers and Van Gogh's Irises.
- In My Favorite Simone Biles Moment Wasn't When She Won Gold (gift link), Liriel Higa celebrates the sportsmanship of Biles and Jordan Chiles (whose idea it was) who bowed down to floor exercise gold medal winner Rebeca Andrade on the podium. Elsa from Getty Images got the shot.
- Omkar Khandekar curates images of the Deadly Protests in Bangladesh from a number of sources. "Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina stepped down after tens of thousands of protestors converged in the capital Dhaka demanding her resignation," he writes. The Associated Press has more on the Bangladesh Protesters.
- The Guardian shares the best Olympic Surfing Pictures from Tahiti as well as a selection of Day 11 shots.
- The Associated Press has photos of Day 10 of the Paris Olympics. Table tennis has engendered a new cliche, apparently.
- Joe McNally posts the second part of his Photographing Olympians, this one about weight lifter Shane Hamman prior to the 2000 Sydney Games. He took two very different shots, one with a flag background, the other with red bicycle lights on the weights. You pick.
- Kate Mothes reviews Brendon Burdon's book Epitaph, which collects a decade's worth of abandoned rural area photographs to, as he puts it, "unravel the knot of mystery ... shedding light on unseen histories and buried past lives."
- Edmond Leong photographs Kuala Lumpur, the City of Diversity in Malaysia. "When I explore areas like Pudu, Chowkit, Kampung Baru and Chinatown, it feels like I'm discovering a new city every time," he says. "I don't act like a photographer, instead I join the fun with the people: if they are crazy I will be crazy too."
- Harold Davis's Solar Rotation Mandala depicts a "solar system" circling a central sunflower in two versions. Of the sunflower itself, he writes, "This varietal, 'Italian White', has a pale, almost green look that is not the typical vibrant color of many sunflowers."
- Ajit Niranjan reports Photos Taken 15 Years Apart Show Melting Swiss Glaciers. Duncan and Helen Porter took the photos "that highlight the speed with which global heating is melting glaciers" this year and in 2009. "Not gonna lie, it made me cry," Porter wrote on social media.
- Ultra-Violet: New Light on Van Gogh's Irises shows how the painter's violet irises looked at the time he mixed the paint with geranium lake, which has since faded so the flowers look blue. Researchers also found a pollen cone that became embedded in the wet paint, proving the painting was done outdoors. The exhibition, which includes a reconstruction of the painting to show its original colors, runs at the Getty until Jan. 19, 2025.
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