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Around The Horn
22 January 2025
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 Gaza today, Arlene Gottfried, Henry Roy, murals by Harold Davis and energy.
- Reuters posts 20 photos of What Gaza Looks Like Today, After 15 Months of War. "A United Nations damage assessment released this month showed that clearing over 50 million tons of rubble left in the aftermath of Israel's bombardment could take 21 years."
- Veronica Esposito reviews Picture Stories: Photographs by Arlene Gottfried, a new exhibition at the New York Historical that looks back on the photographer's intimate and surprising pictures of a diverse city. "Although Gottfried was formally trained in photography at the Fashion Institute of Technology and worked professionally with her camera, she was still a maverick, seeking out neighborhoods most wouldn't dare to enter, taking shots that few others could," she writes. Gottfried died in 2017.
- Impossible Island is a new title featuring the work of Franco-Haitian photographer Henry Roy. "Roy blends dream, observation, imagination and poetic resistance in a career survey spanning four decades. Roy's works, covering his native Haiti, France, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Thailand, Tunisia and beyond, build a photographic world view influenced by French modernism, new wave aesthetics, creolization and Haitian spiralism."
- Harold Davis has been working on two New Murals created from his work. We still enjoy our Dahlia Dream we hung at the bottom of our stairwell 20 years ago. It's a great idea for an empty wall and Davis shows two approaches that work well.
- In Ideas Have Energy ('Bones' Part IV), Mike Johnston continues his "Bones" series on inspiration. "It seems trite and obvious to point this out, but an idea that 'has energy' actually gives you energy," he writes.
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