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Around The Horn
27 November 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 images from space, a dual exhibition, foodscapes, McNally's Giant Polaroids, John Haynes and planned obsolesce.
- In Space Odyssey, Reuters presents 18 photos from the James Webb telescope.
- Two Photographers With an Eye for the Spiritual Meet in an Ohio Museum (gift link). "If the photographer Rotimi Fani-Kayode had not died in 1989 at age 34 of AIDS-related complications, he and Ming Smith, another virtuoso of the camera, would have been approximate contemporaries," writes Zoë Hopkins. This fall, the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio, has opened dual exhibitions, Ming Smith: Wind Chime and Rotimi Fani-Kayode: Tranquility of Communion as if they were.
- In A Drone's Eye View of 'Foodscapes,', Diane Cole looks at George Steinmetz's bird's eye images of the food chain. The photos document food production across six continents, 36 countries, 27 U.S. states and five oceans.
- In A Time to Reflect, Joe McNally muses about his Giant Polaroids at "a gathering last week at the 9/11 Memorial & Museum."
- Samuel Beckett Smoking a French Cigarette is John Haynes's best photograph, Haynes writes.He didn't like photographers. He didn't want them around really."
- Derrick Story argues Planned Obsolesce Doesn't Work for Photography. "If you're lucky, your smartphone is viable for 4 years. Your laptop... not much longer than that. Planned obsolesce is a real problem in the world of technology,," he writes. "But one area in particular seems immune to this diabolical scheme despite manufacturers' efforts: photography."
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