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Around The Horn
22 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 Barbara Ramos, Sutro Tower, Richard Chambury, national park employees and AP Sues White House.
- In Photos That Capture the Soul of San Francisco (gift link), Erica Ackerberg reviews the "long hidden photographs" by Barbara Ramos that have just been published in A Fearless Eye. Ramos took the images in the 1960s and 1970s before spending 50 years as a jewelry maker. "In 2020, she unearthed negatives, scanned the images and posted them on Facebook, a single photo each day," writes Ackerberg. Now published in book form, she adds, "Ramos's work captures minute and mesmerizing everyday scenes in a city that was about to change drastically."
- The Sutro Tower in 3D was constructed from photographs. "For this model (or splat, as we call them), my friend Daylen and I flew our drones around Sutro Tower at a respectful distance for an afternoon until we had collected a few thousand photographs," Vincent Woo explained to Jason Kottke.
- Grace Holliday features Here Comes the Rain Again, Richard Chambury's best phone photo, shot on Apple iPhone 4S. "Of course, wearing a bag on your head is an obvious thing for someone to photograph," Chambury says.
- In These People Protected U.S. Forests, Cassidy Randall profiles seven of the 2,300 federal employees who manage the 35M acres of federal public lands in the U.S. Each profile includes a photo of the public servant at work. They "fought fires, protected sacred sites, cleared trails, cleaned campgrounds and bathrooms, educated visitors and managed wildlife. They also provided safety, including search and rescue and emergency medical treatment," she writes.
- David Folkenflik reports AP Sues Trump White House for Denying Access Over 'Gulf of Mexico' Row in the latest round of this freedom of the press fight. "The press and all people in the United States have the right to choose their own words and not be retaliated against by the government," reads the lawsuit. "The Constitution does not allow the government to control speech. Allowing such government control and retaliation to stand is a threat to every American's freedom."
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