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Around The Horn
9 December 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 a Nutcracker, ugly sweaters, Jeff Wall, Deanna Dikeman, Vasantha Yoganantha, Seeing Things, the EXPEED7 processor, Gampat on reviews and ruby slippers.
- Luis Tato photographs The Nutcracker in Nairobi performed by members of Dance Centre Kenya.
- Noah Berger captured images of Ugly Sweaters and Silent Disco at San Francisco's fifth annual WinterFest.
- Dale Berning Sawa reviews Jeff Wall: Life in Pictures, a new exhibition displaying 40 years of work by the artist who stages scenes to painstakingly replicate the images in his mind. It runs through Jan. 12 at White Cube Bermondsey in London.
- Suzanne Sease features Relative Moments, the personal project of Deanna Dikeman, "a series I began in 1986 [that] chronicles ordinary moments of my extended family's activities," she says. "This project captures a visual history of one family's life, yet I feel there is an ongoing narrative embedded in these photographs that conveys larger, more universal truths about American culture, familiarity and the endless source of everyday wonder that surrounds us."
- Rebecca Horne interviews French photographer Vasantha Yoganantha about The Myth of Two Souls, currently included in the Turning the Page exhibit at Pier 24 in San Francisco. "Our medium lacks sound, it lacks movement, it lacks continuity, and therefore it leaves space for the viewer’s imagination to wander," Yoganantha says. "For me, sequencing photographs is a key part of the way I understand the layered possibilities embedded within the medium."
- In Hot Tip: 'Seeing Things', Mike Johnston links to an old catalog published in 1995 by the Fraenkel Gallery in San Francisco that is still available. And reader Kenneth Tanaka elaborates on the importance of the gallery to photographers.
- In The Answer to Your Question, Thom Hogan details the differences in Nikon Z cameras using the EXPEED7 processor. "Nikon's progression here from Z50II up through Z9 is very impressive," he writes.
- Chris Gampat announces We're Changing Our Camera Reviews in the Name of Inclusivity at The Phoblographer.
- After our slide show Magic Shoes, Reed Saxon photographs a air of the real Ruby Slippers from The Wizard of Oz, after they sold for $28 million.
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