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Around The Horn
12 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 the New Orleans French Quarter, Images Vevey, Small Trades, Stephen Wilkes, strange things written, lighting styles and a stolen Churchill photo.
- David Grunfeld photographed Life in the New Orleans French Quarter Before and During Hurricane Francine where it "was quiet before and during" the storm.
- In Shroom With a View, Fiona Shields features images from Images Vevey, the Swiss biennale. "For three weeks in September photography transforms the town's spaces, inside and out, with some ambitious and playful staging," she writes.
- In Irving Penn: Small Trades, Jason Kottke presents a few images of Penn's 1950 photo project photographing workers in Paris, New York and London.
- Suzanne Sease features Day to Night, the personal project of Stephen Wilkes who "photographed from a crane 40 ft. above the boardwalk, for 18 hours" to create a composite image. “To me, every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle," he says.
- Thom Hogan adds three new Strange Things Written on the Internet XXXI but they aren't all nuts. In fact, the last explores "the use of dedicated parts vs. the use of an all-around part" in digital camera design.
- Zach Suttons suggests some Lighting Styles to try in the studio.
- Max Matza reports Stolen in Canada Discovered in Italy. "The 1941 photo -- known as "The Roaring Lion" -- was taken by Yousuf Karsh shortly after Churchill gave a wartime speech to Canada's parliament," he writes. "On Wednesday, Ottawa police said the portrait had been found in the possession of a private buyer in Genoa, Italy, who was unaware that it had been stolen."
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