04 March - 10 March 2024
Morning light. Before opening on Potrero Hill. San Francisco, California. Photo: Robert Gumpert 9 March 2024
Photography
Archival Recordings: A Landscape Photographer | by Kwasi Boyd-Bouldin
David Hill Gallery: Street Life - group exhibition
Galerie Esther Woerdehoff: Chema Madoz : Recent works
George Avetisyan: Works
Blind: Cécile Asanuma-Brice Okawerinasai! | by Benoit Dupuis-Tordjeman
Polka: Charles Delcourt, Lauréat du Prix Eurazeo 2023: Je Suis Un Photographe du Non—Événement” | Interview par Sarah Petitbon
Blind: Burt Glinn: Half a Century as a Magnum Photographer | by Robert E. Gerhardt
AnOther: Gordon Parks: Pioneering Photographer of Black American Life | by Elodie Saint-Louis
The Guardian: Artists, children, sex workers: Christer Strömholm’s sympathetic street scenes | by Mee-Lai Stone
Lenscratch: European Week: Steffen Diemer | by Sarah Knobel
Lens Culture: My Sweet Elora | photos Luuk van Raamskonk, essay Magali Duzant
Aperture: A Mother’s Relentless Quest to Find her Missing Son - photographer Billy H.C. Kwok convinced Ms. Yu to tell her story | by Ken Chen
Huck: In Photos: The Miners’ Strike, 40 Years On | by Isaac Musk
Blind: Through James Webb’s astronomical eye | by Benoit Dupuis-Tordjeman
Magnum: But Seriously: An Erwitt Exhibition at the Magnum Gallery
Lens Culture: LensCulture Recommendations: Photo Festivals & Photo Fairs 2024
Daniele Tamagni Foundation: Projects
Flashbak: Photographing The Invisible: Things are Queer by Duane Michals (1973)
Culture, Art and Design
After starting before sunrise to beat the heat, farmworkers eat a meal under the shade before starting work again at the temperature climbed towards 106 F. Near Salinas, California. Photo Robert Gumpert 2002
Medium: My Mother, Ouk Lee Kim’s Korean Dumplings. | by Yunghi Kim
Longreads: The Expanding Table: Honoring Palestinian Culinary Tradition in Arkansas | by Jordon P. Hickey
Poor Man’s Feast: Katherine May: A Breakfast Conversation - On the Joy of a Proper Breakfast | by Elissa Altman
Artsy: Museums Are Reframing the Legacy of Black Art in 2024—Starting with the Harlem Renaissance | by Jaelynn Walls
The Guardian: Daniele Tamagni’s Heavy metal cowboys and Congolese dandies: Africa’s alternative style icons
BJP: In a time of global conflict, photo quilts offer unlikely solace - Jenny Matthew | by Mick Moore
Reading The Pictures: The Fading Force: Has Trump Lost His Edge in His Court-Defying Visual Strategy? | by Michael Shaw
Dezeen: "More good architects should get involved in social housing" says Daniel Libeskind | by Amy Peacock
Dezeen: "We need a major shift in the way we look at public housing” | by Peter Apps
Hyperallergic: Sarah Grilo’s Prescient Abstraction | by Tim Keane
AnOther: Chelsea Hotel Portraits by Tony Notarberardino | text Osman Can Yerebakan
Daniele Tamagni Foundation: Archive
Metropolis: How Dune and Poor Things Rely on Architecture History | by Jaxon Stone
Oxford American: A Political Blues | by Maxwell George
Five Things I Saw & Read This Week: Saturday, March 9th, 2024: “I’m Your Puppet” | by Martin Colyer
Books
Loose Joints Publishing: Nigel Shafran – Workbooks
Loose Joints Publishing: Abdulhamid Kircher – Rotting from Within
El País: ‘Solito: A Memoir’ by Javier Zamora - The story of a harrowing migration journey through the eyes of a child | by Sergio C. Fanjul
Dewis Lewis: THE ENEMY WITHIN - The Miners' Strike 1984/85 | by Michael Kerstgens
Podcast
“What would you like?”, cafe server. Cafe in downtown Detroit, Michigan. Photo Robert Gumpert 1986
Aperture: Rediscovering the Photographs of Ernest Cole | Aperture Conversations
Desert Island Discs: Val Wilmer, writer and photographer
10 FPS: Episode 96: Devin Allen (Street Photography) | by John Devecka
Organize the Unorganized - The Rise of the CIO | by Benjamin Fong
Headbanging Headlines:
Ventriloquist convention, Las Vegas, Nevada Photo Robert Gumpert 2004
The Guardian: Kentucky senate passes bill for child support of unborn children
Huffpost: Mark Robinson R/NC): 'I Absolutely Want To Go Back To The America Where Women Couldn’t Vote’
The Guardian: George Santos attends State of the Union and announces another run for Congress
WSJ: What’s in a $178,000 Oscars Gift Bag?
Other Things
The Guardian: I’m still reeling from Rishi Sunak’s shameless, dangerous speech | by Caroline Lucas
The Guardian: ‘We don’t need air con’: how Burkina Faso builds schools that stay cool in 40C heat | by Èlia Borràs
Aeon: Rethinking the homunculus | by Moheb Costandi - edited by Pam Weintraub
The Guardian: ‘My period has become a nightmare’: life in Gaza without sanitary products | by Aseel Mousa
LRB: Lula, Bolsonaro and Israel | by Forest Hylton
Print: News From a Changing Planet: Seeing Algae From Space | by Tatiana Schlossbert
PetaPixel: Microsoft Engineer Says Company’s AI Ignores Copyrights, Creates ‘Sickening’ Images | by Jaron Schneider
Civil Eats: Walmart’s Pandemic Port Squeeze | by Dana Cronin
TPM: Inside A Secret Society Of Prominent Right-Wing Christian Men Prepping For A ‘National Divorce’ | by Josh Kovensky
Labor
Coal miners, members of the United Mine Workers, near Price, Utah. Photo Robert Gumpert 1984
Dewis Lewis: THE ENEMY WITHIN - The Miners' Strike 1984/85 | by Michael Kerstgens
Portside: he Most Important Labor Story Right Now Is in Minnesota—It Might Be the Model We All Need | by Sarah Jaffe
TPM: UAW’s Southern Strategy: Union Revs Up Drive To Get Workers Employed By Foreign Automakers To Join Its Ranks | by Bob Bussel
Social Issues (2024 Elections)
NBC News: Map: 29 million Americans live under new voter ID laws put in place since 2020 | by Catherine Allen
The New Yorker: Joe Biden’s Last Campaign | by Evan Osnos
NY Times: Trump’s Allies Ramp Up Campaign Targeting Voter Rolls | by Alexandra Berton, Nick Corasaniti
Washington Post: What’s behind the Supreme Court’s furious agreement on Trump in Colorado | by Ruth Marcus
Washington Post: Bernie Sanders warned President Biden privately on 2024 message | by Jeff Stein
New York Intelligencer: An Ex-KGB Agent Says Trump Was a Russian Asset Since 1987. Does It Matter? | by Johnathan Chait
Texas Monthly: The Far Right in Texas Crashed Through Its Last Guardrail | by Forrest Wilder
Convergence: Defeat the Far Right, We Must Build From the Bottom Up | by Luis Feliz Leon
Social Issues
Portsmouth Square community park. Chinatown, San Francisco, California. Photo Robert Gumpert 9 March 2024
The New Yorker: Thinking About A.I. With Stanislaw Lem | by Rivka Galchen
El País: The spread of artificially generated adult content is beginning to compete with content featuring real people and poses serious questions about addiction, consent and fraud | by Marco Antonio Gomes
The Lever: Burned by legal decisions, Elon Musk is relocating his rocket company to Texas — where he’ll enjoy a new, separate justice system controlled by his ally, Gov. Greg Abbott. | by Katya Schwenk and Helen Santoro
The New Yorker: Caitlin Bernard is risking her career, and her safety, to care for pregnant patients. | by Peter Slevin
The Guardian: Take it from a former banker: the budget is for ordinary people. The mega-rich look on and laugh | by Gary Stevenson
News Channel 5 Nashville: REVEALED: Secret recording shows school voucher proponent talking of 'public hangings' of lawmakers | by Phil Williams
Nieman Lab: Report for America is “phasing out” partnerships with hedge fund-owned publications | by Sophie Culpepper
CBS News: 50 years of tax cuts for the rich failed to trickle down, economics study says | by Aimee Picchi
High Country News: Disaster disparities in the West | by Natalia Mesa
BBC: Colorado DNA scandal threatens to overturn hundreds of criminal cases | by Max Matza
Division Street
Richmond District. San Francisco, California. Photo Robert Gumpert 3 March 2024
KQED: Despite Progress, Santa Clara County Sees Sharp Rise in First-Time Homelessness | by Vanessa Rancaño
The San Francisco Standard: San Francisco is punting its failures on homelessness to Trump judges | by Chesa Boudin
ProPublica: Massachusetts’ Highly Touted Push to “Significantly Reduce” Affordable Housing Vacancies Barely Made a Dent | by Todd Wallack, WBUR
LA Times: L.A.'s infamous Cecil Hotel, now housing homeless, for sale | by Grace Toohey
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