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Around The Horn
19 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 Photoshop at 35, Face Magazine, Eric Kogan, Maggie Shannon, a Super Bowl image, a camera question, a contract and an NEA protest.
- Russell Preston Brown and Joel Grimes discuss The Evolution of Photography and Photoshop | Adobe Photoshop on Photoshop's 35th anniversary:
- Mee-Lai Stone features Faces of the Face Magazine from a new exhibit at the National Portrait Gallery in London from Feb. 20 until May 18.
- Kate Mothes showcases Eric Kogan's Coincidental Photos of New York City. "His playful photographs (previously) capture visual coincidences and interactions between his urban surroundings and nature," she writes.
- Charlotte Jansen interviews Maggie Shannon about her best photograph taken in The Delivery Room. "The energy in the room was always insane, with everyone doing their job to bring the baby into the world," Shannon says.
- David J. Phillip used a remote camera to capture The Eagles' Super Bowl Celebration. "Climbing into the catwalk to set up our gear over 200 feet above the field was challenging, especially in a stadium built in the 1970s," he writes.
- Mike Johnston asks a Camera Question: 24-megapixel or ~2x? "Assuming you agree that full-frame cameras are the norm now, if you were revamping your equipment and buying new -- and you were standardizing on an FF body -- and money wasn't really an issue (which might make this just a thought experiment for some), would you want a 24-Mp FF camera or a FF camera with a higher-resolution sensor?" he wonders.
- In Brand Narrative, Lifestyle and Product Photography for a Large Clothing Brand, Bryan Sheffield negotiates a contract for photos of Olympic-hopeful athletes modeling the client's clothes at a university sports facility. The $34K contract was immediately accepted and an additional $27K contract followed the shoot for the use of additional images.
- In Artists Protest New NEA Restrictions, Chloe Veltman covers a protest by "463 artists from a wide variety of disciplines" over recent executive orders targeting support for minority artists. "Trump and his enablers may use doublespeak to claim that support for artists of color amounts to 'discrimination' and that funding the work of trans and women artists promotes 'gender ideology' (whatever that is). But we know better: the arts are for and represent everybody. We can't give that up," the letter says.
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