Maybe This Week, Maybe Next Week
1 June 2025
Gay Pride Month: Sun, Jun 1, 2025 – Mon, Jun 30, 2025. Richard Bookwalter and Galen Leung with Galen’s mother Maria Yuen Yau Leung who lives with them. Married 19 February 2004 after San Francisco announces that the city will be issuing same sex marriage licenses and performing weddings at City Hall. During the 3 weeks that same-sex marriage was performed nearing 4000 licenses were issued. Eventually the courts stopped the ceremonies and for the next 4 years everyone waited for the courts to decide a suit brought by SF. In 2008 the California Supreme Court ruled that gay marriage was a right. Marriages started once again, which was negated by a statewide ballot measure, which in turn was overturned by the US Supreme Court. Photo: Robert Gumpert 2004
A couple of white guys walking in the French Quarter. New Orleans, Louisiana. Photo: Robert Gumpert 1972
Fighters, trainers and family at the Kronk boxing gym, Detroit, Michigan. Photo: Robert Gumpert 1992
Cop shares the elevator with a resident of a Tenderloin SRO. San Francisco, California. Photo: Robert Gumpert 1994
Wayman Miller, 49, who "got homeless again the 25th March with Juliet Johnson, 25. She has been homelss since she was 19. They were on Dore street near San Francisco’s Design District visiting friends before returning to their tent about 10 blocks away in the SOMA area. Photo: Robert Gumpert 16 May 2025
The Reads
Kristi Noem Wants Migrants to Compete for Citizenship on New Reality Show | Julia Ornedo/The Daily Beast
AN ESSAY OF (K)NOTS AND FOOTNOTES | Layli Long Soldier /Emergence
Recommended Book
“How To Win an Information War - The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler” by Peter Pomerantsev
Science
New theory could finally make 'quantum gravity' a reality | Andrey Feldman/Live Science
James Webb Just Solved a 13-Billion-Year-Old Mystery Hidden in the Cosmic Dark | Jessica Bennett/Daily Galaxy
No, Schrödinger’s cat is not alive and dead at the same time | Jim Baggott, edited by Nigel Warburton/Aeon
Black Hole Mergers Show Strange Mathematical Link to String Theory | Ramin Skibba, edited by Lee Billings/Scientific American
Photography, Culture, Art
The Daily Heller: Beautify America With Angry Billboards |
Steven Heller/Print
LFI 04.2025 | Leica magazine
This Exhibition Celebrates the Polaroid as a Living Object | Orla Brennan/AnOther
THE CENTER AWARDS: ME&EVE AWARD: MITSU MAEDA | Aline Smithson/Lenscratch
One Half Paradise | Cam Lindfors
Requiem for Larry Massett | Barrett Golding/Transom
Art As Propaganda | Jay Allison/Transom
East West Players Brings Asian-American Stories Into the Limelight | Seph Rodney/Hyperallergic
Finally, a visual survey on L.A.’s regional style | Photography by Jasmine Benjamin; Julissa James/LA Times
Podcasts
WAR & PEACE - REVU issue 2 - The Vernacular Social Club | The Photo Vault
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21 May 2025
A windy day looking west. Photo: Robert Gumpert 16 May 2025
Shaving brush. Photo: Robert Gumpert 18 May 2025
Red onion from the farmer’s market. Photo: Robert Gumpert 17 May 2025
Maybe King Oyster Mushroom from the farmer’s market. Even after all these years I still from time to time forget to ask for details. Photo: Robert Gumpert 17 May 2025
Strawberries. Photo: Robert Gumpert 18 May 2025
The Reads
Bad Boys - How “Cops” became the most polarizing reality TV show in America | Tim Stelloh/The Marshall Project
When Wizards and Orcs Came to Death Row | Keri Blakinger/The Marshall Project
The “Pope Trump” Meme Is More Dangerous Than You Think | Emma Cieslik/Hyperallergic
When We Are No Longer Needed: Emerging Elites, Tech Trillionaires and the Decline of Democracy | Moritz Von Knebel/Tech Policy
Science
Cambrian Period creatures known as sea moths seemed alien because of their additional eye, but a study finds anatomical features more in line with modern animals | Jack Tamisiea/NYT
Ice Loss Narrows Spectrum of Ocean Light | Meeri Kim/Optics&Photonics News
Photography/Culture/Art
In defence of souvenirs: 10 photographers on their most prized mementoes | Sofia de La Cruz/Wallpaper
Photography and Power | Photoworks
Photo London 2025 — A Preview of UK’s International Photo Fair | Lensculture
Cut Right Through the Boat and Illuminate Everything - The Singaporean photographer Nguan spent a decade capturing New York via the Staten Island ferry. | E. Tammy Kim/Photo Booth
Los Tigres del Norte: ‘We’re going to have to change the word ‘corrido’ to avoid getting in trouble’ | Rodrigo Soriano/El País
‘Not a single person shied away’: how a year chronicling end-of-life stories changed one photographer | Andrew Stafford/The Guardian
One Man’s Trash Is Another’s Art | Lisa Yin Zhang/Hyperallergic
Where Dust and Water Dream Together | Photographs by Skander Khlif; Interview by Liz Sales
Library of Congress Acquires 17,500 Images by Pioneering Photographer Raúl Ruiz | Pesala Bandara
BEYOND THE PHOTOGRAPH: LONG-TERM PROJECT RESEARCH WITH JEANINE MICHNA-BALES | Jeanine Michna-Bales/Lenscratch
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