02 October - 08 October 2023 — Robert Gumpert

OT L Geary Parkway. Geary at 12th. SF, California. Photo: Robert Gumpert 03 October 2023

Photography

Phil Penman: Features & All the work not fit for instagram

Chicago Tribune: Chicago’s trailblazing Black photojournalists discuss their work | by Darcel Rockett

Blind: You’re Wrong about Robert Frank | by Bill Shapiro

Blind: On the Road - Robert Frank and Todd Webb | by Bill Shapiro

Columbia Missourian: Missouri Photo Workshop aims to 'show truth with a camera’ | by Bailey Stover

℅ Berlin: Mary Ellen Mark

LFI: Icons - David Hurn

Aperture: Zohra Opoku’s Evocative Reflections on Mortality and Resilience | by Ekow Eshun

Huck: Photographer Léonard Pongo - A dreamlike journey into the Democratic Republic of Congo | by Miss Rosen

Huck: Photography by Polo Silk, Fab 5 Legacy Archive - The Black American studio photographers who transformed history | by Miss Rosen

Blind: Exploring the Legacy of the Black Star Photo Agency | by Robert E. Gerhardt

Lenscratch: Chelsea Darter: A Prairie Fisher King | by Epiphany Knedler

Magnum: Emerging in Fragments: Sim Chi Yin’s ‘One Day We’ll Understand’ | Max Houghton writes on the photographer’s solo show exploring histories of anti-colonial resistance

Huck: The Horrific Impact of Russia’s War on Ukraine in Photos | Text by Isaac Muk - Photography by Courtesy of FotoEvidence

Tine Poppe: Exit Wonderland, Gilded Lilies, and a number of others

Pulitzer Center: Powerful photographs change how we think about issues and places. Associated Press photographer and Pulitzer Center grantee Rodrigo Abd does just that in a new series of striking images out of Afghanistan. In Afghanistan in a Box, Abd traveled the country with fellow grantees Bram Janssen and Elena Becatoros to capture a society in transition.

The Guardian: Photographer Joel Sage: Madame Arthur: Paris’s oldest gender-twisting cabaret

PhMuseum: Camille Lévêque's Inheritance of Trauma explores the generational heritage of trauma across the legacy of three generations of Armenian women.

BJP: Meet the winners of this year’s Carte Blanche Student competition | by Philippa Kelly

Hyperallergic: Armenian Artists Contemplate Notions of Home and Belonging | by AX Mina

Culture, Art and Design

Peta Pixel: Day of Action Urges Congress to Ban Companies Copyrighting AI Works | by Matt Growcoot

Artsy: 10 Latin American Artists at the Forefront of Abstraction | by Salomé Gómez-Upegui

The Guardian: ‘Red Caesarism’ is rightwing code – and some Republicans are listening | by Jason Wilson

El País: War elephants: How Carthage used a ‘psychological’ weapon the Romans failed to master | by Vincente G. Olaya

Blue Moment: The great-grandmother’s tale | by Richard Williams

Creative Boom: Joel Holland expresses his love for London via charming illustrations of shopfronts | by Dom Carter

High Country News: Myth and mending in the true West | by Betsy Gaines Quammen

i-D: Photographing Lana Del Rey fans in the American south - At a stop on her Bible Belt tour, John Parvin McBride met the die-hards who'd travelled far to see their favourite. | by John Marvin McBride and Douglas Greenwood

Designboom: A slender red opening slices the earth for Hajime Yoshida architecture’s land art in Japan | edited by ravail khan

Print: The Daily Heller: Another Poster Spectacular at Poster House

Hyperallergic: Required Reading - This week, museums and mental health, Google aims for our wallets, the marketing psychology of floor designs, Crayola color theory, and much more. | by Lakshmi Rivera Amin

Print: Support Banned Books with PRINT

Wallpaper: Takashi Murakami on his monsterizing San Francisco show | by Pei-ru Keh

Other Stuff

LA Times: L.A.'s forever war on smog | by Patt Morrison

The Washington Post: Winnipeg police think landfill holds bodies of missing Indigenous women | by Amanda Coletta

The New Yorker: London Breed’s Cynical Swing to the Right | by Jay Caspian Kang

The Guardian: Five big takeaways from the first half of the 2023 Rugby World Cup | by Robert Kitson

Dezeen: Reef Design Lab crafts Erosion Mitigation Units from recycled oyster shells | by Tian Lin

Psyche: The cognitive work involved in lying is relevant to lie detection and could help explain why some people are better liars | by Molly MacMillan, edited by Matt Huston

Washington Post: Alexa says the 2020 race was stolen, even as parent company Amazon promotes the voice assistant as a reliable source of election news. | by Cat Zakrzewski

Labor

Central Valley of California. Auto battery plant worker in the Central Valley of California, member of the UAW. 1988. Photo: Robert Gumpert

Print: The Daily Heller: Layoffs in the Publishing Industry Sting

The Guardian: Anti-Reagan cartoons and a jacket from Cesar Chavez: inside the UAW archive | Alaina Demopoulos

High Country News: The dark side of America’s sheep industry - Sheepherders face wage theft, isolation, hunger and alleged abuse. | by Teresa Cotsirilos

Civil Eats: Nighttime Harvests Protect Farmworkers From Extreme Heat, but Bring Other Risks | by Amy Mayer

The Guardian: Over 75,000 workers poised for largest healthcare strike in US history | by Michael Sainato

WKYT: EKY non-profit implements 32-hour workweeks for staff members | by Jeremy Tombs

The Real News Network: UAW’s Demand for a 32-Hour Work Week Would be a Win for the Planet | by Ashley Bishop

Labor Notes: Auto Workers Spare Big 3, Win Landmark Just Transition at General Motors | by Luis Feliz Leon

Headbanging Headlines:

Ad in the Potrero Hll View, a neighborhood free paper in San Francisco, California.

Dezeen: Renders have been revealed of a supertall skyscraper designed by UK studio Zaha Hadid Architects for the Trojena ski resort at Neom in Saudi Arabia. And: Zaha Hadid Architects designing sinuous lookout at Neom ski resort

Podcast

The Third Act: Episode 12 - Don McCullin with Catherine Fairweather

The Camera Store TV: William Albert Allard: Interview with a legendary photographer

Capturing Artistry: William Klein’s Photographic Journey

Blind: Exclusive: Never-Before-Seen Video of Robert Frank | by Bill Shapiro

BBC Outlook: The prison escape and the wooden keys

Books

Bloomberg: Angus Deaton’s New Book Says Economists Value Markets Over People | by Shawn Donnan

Figure.1: Finding American - Stories of Immigration from All 50 States | by Colin Boyd Shafer

Washington Post: Werner Herzog’s memoir is as delightfully bizarre as his films | by Becca Rothfeld

thebluemoment.com: Sly Stone’s testament | by Richard Williams

Social Issues

New Socialist: Not One of the Decent People | by Carl Nevill

Aeon: In the interests of all - How Eugene V Debs turned American republicanism against the chiefs of capitalism and became a true crusader for freedom | by Tom O’Shea, Edited by Sam Dresser

The Guardian: ‘Gobsmackingly bananas’: scientists stunned by planet’s record September heat | by Damian Carrington

Texas Monthly: James Reyos Has Always Been Innocent. After Forty Years, the Courts Agree. | by Michael Hall

DW: Hundreds of migrants overwhelm tiny Canary Island

El País: Tokischa - ‘There’s still racism, there’s still slavery, no longer with the whip, but through work. It’s a cycle that repeats itself’ | by Gabriela Wiener

Division Street

Citilaundry Wash & Dry. Geary at 37th Ave. SF, California. Photo: Robert Gumpert 03 October 2023

LA Times: Fallen from the middle class: 60, living in an RV and fighting to be housed | by Paloma Esquivel, Rachel Uranga. Photos by Irfan Khan

LA Times: Opinion: Why our views of drugs and homelessness are all wrong

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02 October - 08 October 2023