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28 October 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 week, Dodger fans, Hemingway's bullfighting photos, Andrea Modica, Dolorès Marat, a Filipino jeepney, Brook Jensen, Z questions and preservation.
- The Associated Press showcases its Week in Pictures in 25 images. And Reuters adds 20 more Pictures of the Week.
- Justin L Stewart presents his images of Dodger fans showing What the Team Means to the City.
- In Bringing the Bullfighting Photos of Ernest Hemingway's Death in the Afternoon Back to Life, the Library of America restores the author's photographs. "I have not described certain things in detail because photography has been brought to the point where it can represent some things better than a man can write of them," he said of them.
- In Where Punk Meets Catholicism, Killian Fox reviews Andrea Modica's Catholic Girl, a monograph of portraits shot in the early 1980s in Catholic schools in Brooklyn and Connecticut.
- Tim Adams takes a look at The Woman With Gloves, French photographer Dolorès Marat's image in the Étoile station of the Paris metro, near the Arc de Triomphe.
- Chloe Veltman photographs a 1948 Filipino Jeepney puttering its way through downtown San Francisco. It's part of a pilot tour for Filipino American History Month.
- Kevin Raber sits down with Brook Jensen to muse on Photography Today in this 24-minute video:
- In Magic 8 Ball Answers Future Z Questions, Thom Hogan gives his spin on Z mount development.
- The Glen Park branch of the San Francisco Public Library will host a free workshop on Preserving Your Personal Collections that covers caring for your books, photos, scrapbooks, family papers and more on Fridsy from 1 to 3 p.m. You can also catch the presentation on YouTube.
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