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Around The Horn
31 March 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 Eid celebrations, Stan Squirewell, new cameras, subjectivity in engineering, an unlucky idea and Sally Mann.
- Reuters showcases 29 photos of Eid Celebrations Around the World as Ramadan ends.
- Grace Ebert features Stan Squirewell's collages of Anonymous Portraits and Patterned Textiles. "Layering unknown pasts with present-day additions, Squirewell explores how everyday traditions and rituals remain through generations," she writes.
- In Déjà Vu à Tokyo, Thom Hogan writes, "Not only are we seeing a slowdown in new camera introductions, but there's this 'haven't I seen that before' thing going on, too."
- Jim Kasson considers Subjectivity in Engineering Design particularly of lenses by reflecting on the design history of keyboards.
- In Unlucky, Mike Johnston reveals, "I got this notion that I would remove gear from my photography and make up for it in technique, skill and hard work." Then he started writing about gear.
- In We Should Have Seen What Sally Mann Saw 40 Years Ago (gift link), Margaret Renkl looks back at the photographer's recently reissued At Twelve: Portraits of Young Women. "Sally Mann’s photographs are neither offensive nor disturbing, but they can be unsettling in their honesty, in the directness of their gaze," she writes. "Whatever we think we see in any child, too often what we’re seeing is what we want to see. What Ms. Mann sees is who they are."
Apologies, we inadvertently overwrote the CSS for Friday's slide show so only the main image displayed with the story until we restored the CSS file on Saturday after a reader alerted us to the problem. Anyway, here's a look five years back when we were more careful. And please support our efforts...