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Around The Horn
21 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 coca leaf, Michael Lundgren, Paintings, raids on the farm, the Killip Conundrum, EOS Webcam Utility Pro, deepfakes and patterns in art.
- Reuters is there as the World Health Organization, at Bolivia's initiative, is conducts a "critical review" of the Coca Leaf, 75 years after the United Nations called for the abolition of traditional uses of the crop.
- In Glass Mountain, Michael Lundgren captures remote American landscapes "with a haunting stillness, revealing the hidden rhythms and enthralling mystery of the natural world."
- Suzanne Sease features Paintings, the personal project of Kremer/Johnson. "This project was born when we admired a friend's paintings — and the idea snowballed from there. How could we weave a real person into those painted worlds?"
- In When Immigration Raids Come to the Farm Fields, Michael Shaw and Cara Finnegan examine Associated Press photographer Michael Owen Baker's video during a federal immigration raid at Glass House Farms in Camarillo, Calif., on July 10. "We analyze the compositional choice that aligns the compliant protester with the crops while federal agents stomp through them, symbolically destroying both human dignity and the steady supply of farm labor," they write.
- In The Killip Conundrum, Mike Johnston observes, "Chris Killip seems to be symbolic of a peculiar problem for photographers, which is that we need access to our subject matter. Ansel Adams traveled back and forth to Yosemite from San Francisco, and as he got older he did less mountain climbing and more darkroom work. Sally Mann's kids grew up."
- Thom Hogan laments the announcement of EOS Webcam Utility Pro as a function-for-pay. "The thing that concerns me is that no camera maker has proven to be good at software and when you start trying to sell subscriptions for function, you're in the software business," he writes.
- In Deepfakes as a Trigger of a New Economy, Paul Melcher writes, "The problem isn't just that bad actors can now create convincing fake identities; it's that the very concept of proving authenticity has become exponentially more complex."
- Samuel Jay Keyser muses on The Pleasure of Patterns in Art. "What is it about painting that has kept photography from slaying it?" he asks before analyzing Caillebotte's Paris Street; Rainy Day. "It is noteworthy that as strikingly photographic, familiar, dramatic -- what have you -- the painting is, one source of its pleasure has nothing to do with the content of the image but its shape, a shape that forces the viewer to find the rhyme," he writes.
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