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Around The Horn
3 September 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 Israeli protests, Paralympics, David Herasimtschuk, Teri Vershel, Liz Sales, an agave, a flashmob, Sahat Zia Hero, Joe McNally, printing, Woodburytype, yearbook photos and blue.
- The Guardian curates dramatic photos of the Anti-Government Protests in Tel Aviv from Sunday night.
- The Associated Press showcases its highlights from the first week of the Paralympic Games in Paris.
- In A Photographer Captures Life in America's Last Remaining Old-Growth Forests, Ben de la Cruz interviews David Herasimtschuk. "From salamanders and salmon to bears and mountain lions, his images illustrate not only the beauty of the forests and their creatures but the symbiotic relationships which are vital to the forests' health and the planet's welfare," he writes.
- Strange Reflections features Teri Vershel's paired street images that reveal the connections between strangers taken from her book Relative Strangers, a 112 page hardback available for $35.
- In Ways of Knowing, Stephanie Santana interviews Liz Sales about her ongoing project The Wayfinding Series that honors Black women as "wayfinders, planners, strategists, timeline jumpers and archivists."
- In Slow Photography: Agave Abstracts Suite, Harold Davis has more fun with his "new Leica M lenses and new techniques. "Working slowly, with the camera on the tripod, I choose a low ISO (125) and stopped the Summilux down all the way (to f16)," he writes. "Exposures were in the range of one or two seconds. The images that resulted emphasize the curves and abstract shapes of the Agaves."
- Manuel Orbegozo captures the "action" as A 100-Person Flashmob Freezes Time in Golden Gate Park.
- Maria Isabel Barros Guinle catches up with Sahat Zia Hero, The Rohingya Refugee Who Won a U.N. Award for His Photos. "This a tough life," he says. "We are humans too and we have the right to seek a better life like other people around the world."
- In Long Ago, Working Under the Ground, Joe McNally photographing the Sandhogs who built much of the infrastructure of New York City.
- Derrick Story provides three checklists to Print Black & White Like a Pro, one each for Printer, Paper and Software Settings.
- In The Erasing of Arthur Rimbaud, Mike Johnston looks at the portraits of Étienne Carjat who "learned photography from Pierre Petit, the photographer who turned the caricatures into cartes de visite for sale to the public." He notes, "He worked in the collodion process before it was mainstream, reproducing his pictures at least partially in Woodburytype, the most beautiful, but also the most elusive, of photographic processes." The Getty has more on the Woodburytype process (akin to gravure) that is lost to time.
- In What Can We Learn From Millions of High School Yearbook Photos?, Sofia Shchukina reports on a recent paper by economists Hans-Joachim Voth and David Yanagizawa-Drott. The pair analyzed 14.5 million high school yearbook photos from all over the U.S. using AI.
- Is My Blue Your Blue? tests the boundary between what you see as blue and what you see as green (uh, where turquoise falls). And compares it to what other people see as blue and green,
More to come! Meanwhile, here's a look five years back. And please support our efforts...