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Around The Horn
4 February 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 A Day Without Immigrants, Rebecca Norris Webb, Oded Balilty at Auschwitz, 1970s England, prime lenses, photo gamut mapping, film photography and 1960s San Francisco.
- The Los Angeles Times presents Photos: 'A Day Without Immigrants' Protest by Robert Gauthier, Gina Ferazzi and Brian van der Brug. "In Southern California and across the country on Monday, dozens of businesses nationwide closed, schools reported lower attendance and families put off trips to the grocery store in observance of 'A day without immigrants.'"
- In A Difficulty Is a Light, Sophie Wright interviews Rebecca Norris Webb about her collection of poems and photographs that seek "solace in different landscapes, the restlessness of grief."
- Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Oded Balilty captured The 'Darkness of the Past' along Auschwitz's railroad tracks. "The contrast between the soft and pleasant light and the darkness of the past caught my eye," he writes.
- Daniel Meadows photographed A Bus Tour of 1970s England. "As a photographer, my principal subject was -- and remains -- the British people. I'm not interested in celebrities, just ordinary folk," he writes.
- In We're Now Flooded by Primes, Thom Hogan looks at the "broken market" for lenses. "Chinese prime lenses more than double the number of lenses that are available," he writes. "But still, I'm not convinced we need a lot of new lenses, and particularly not primes in the mid-range."
- Mark D Segal is Mapping Photo Gamuts with ColorThink 4 "to help us see more accurately which colors or areas of color in our photographs will be out of the gamut in their final output."
- Paul Melcher suggests Why Film Photography Refuses to Die (And Why That Matters More Than You Think). "Film isn't just about nostalgia -- it's about experience," he writes. "It forces photographers to slow down, commit to a shot and let go of control. It brings back an element of surprise and imperfection that digital erased in its obsession with instant perfection."
- Did Agnès Varda takes these Images of 1960s San Francisco?
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