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Around The Horn
4 August 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 The Grateful Dead, an ICE arrest, the Crosstown Classic, Governors Island, a garden spiral, Raw exposure and measles outbreak in one shot.
- CNN published a few of Jim Marshall's behind-the-scenes images from the early days of The Grateful Dead on the 60th anniversary of the band, which was celebrated at the Polo Grounds and McClaren Park this weekend in San Francisco.
- Anatomy of an ICE Arrest (gift link) in one image by Todd Heisler, Luis Ferré-Sadurní and Wesley Parnell dissects an image of Lopez Benitez's arrest at an immigration courthouse in New York City after a judge had scheduled his next hearing to hear the merits of his asylum claim. "This has become the new normal in America's immigration courts," they write.
- The Associated Press photographed the annual Crosstown Classic between the Cubs and the White Six "with a Polaroid Now+ camera and i-Type film, which match the classic Polaroid look and process but offer modern advantages including a USB charger," Erin Hooley writes. "Each Polaroid image was first exposed to light, then went into a black felt bag."
- Thalia Juarez reports Governors Island in New York has become "a climate solutions hub." Through a pilot program "innovators and companies receive funding and space to launch their ideas and test them in the real world."
- Harold Davis built s small Garden Spiral below a Japanese maple. "One cool thing about creation in the garden is that nothing is ever final," he writes. "Things change over time, plants grow, and weather has its impact."
- Jim Kasson takes a look at Raw Exposure in Situations That Aren't Light-Limited. "If there is plenty of light, raw exposure is usually not intellectually difficult with modern CMOS full-frame or larger cameras," he writes. "The idea is to give as generous an exposure as possible, subject to the constraint that important highlights are not saturated in any channel in the Raw file."
- In The Only Shot That Matters, Michael Shaw examines "the only published photograph I’ve found that shows what America’s worst measles outbreak in years actually looks like." It depicts three children in a Lubbock, Tex., hospital room, taken by their mother. "One mother's hospital photos shouldn't carry the entire weight of documenting this crisis," he writes.
More to come! Meanwhile, here's a look five years back. And please support our efforts...