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Around The Horn
23 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 Santa heads, Larry Schorr, Harold Davis, a good nightcap, the Louis Mendes Test, a Kodak Brownie Hawkeye and the Z system's holes.
- Tim Adams marks the holiday with Santa Heads, a 1955 shot by Al Barry of Santa heads rolling off a conveyer belt into a box labeled "Santa Dolls."
- Natalia Gurevich profiles Rock-concert photographer Larry Schorr who, at 73, hopes to make a name for himself. “I go towards stillness more than I do action. I look for parts when everything is still on the stage," he says. He's been at it a while, though, starting with a 1968 Nikon F and a 200mm lens.
- Harold Davis has compiled his Best of 2024. "My choices are idiosyncratic, based on no discernible criteria whatsoever, and simply are my personal taste=h writes of the year he switched from a Nikon D850 to a Leica M11 Monochrom and M11P.
- Suzanne Sease features And to All a Good Nightcap: The 12 Cocktails of Christmas, the personal project of Tom Hussey. "Each cocktail in this series isn't just a recipe -- it's a celebration of tradition, creativity and the joy we share during this magical season," he says.
- Mike Johnston proposes The Louis Mendes Test.'If you have a picture of Louis Mendes somewhere in your hard drives or negatives, surely you're a street photographer," he begins to explain.
- In Why I Use Medium Format, Jim Kasson reveals starting our that way in 1949 with a Kodak Brownie Hawkeye that produced 6x6 negatives for contact prints.
- "Nikon has now been delivering Z System products for a bit over six years," Thom Hogan writes. What's Still Missing? he wonders. He concocts a list covering cameras, lenses and other things (like flash and software). Well, there's always next year.
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