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Around The Horn
2 December 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 Lee Chapman, Nina Welch-Kling, a new stamp, Jim Bailey, photography's decline, tripods and the Getty-Shutterstock merger.
- Lee Chapman's photographs document the scenes, signages and family businesses of the postwar Shōwa Era Japan as it fades into the past.
- In Nina Welch-Kling's Rallentando, "the chaos of city streets begins to thin, and people pass along in drifts of color as if buoyed along by a breeze," Magali Duzant writes.
- Harold Davis shows off My New Stamp for 2026, a bouquet of Angel's Trumpts on a 4-cent stamp. They are, uncharacteristically, pointing up rather than hanging down, as you find them in nature. And that's not the only variation you might notice.
- Heidi Volpe talks to Jim Bailey about Wild Light in the Landscape and Atomic Level Experiments. "Intuition inspires and craft translates," he says. "It's a golden age for the craft of image making."
- In The Arc of the Art, Mike Johnston suggests (but you can disagree, he adds) that photography's best days are behind it. It peaked "at maybe the time the Canon EOS system made it debut in 1989."
- In Three Legged Friend Revisited, Jason Row takes his tripod to the beach and wonders why we dislike them. They slow us down. Which is why he likes them.
- In Why the Getty-Shutterstock Merger Is Really About Who Controls 'Real', Paul Melcher sees the Getty-Shutterstock merger as "a symptom. The disease is an information economy that values engagement over accuracy, speed over verification, abundance over trustworthiness. We made images cheap and facts expensive."
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