07 August - 13 August 2023 — Robert Gumpert

Roses in the garden. 10 July 2023 Photos Robert Gumpert

Photography

Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2023: Short List

Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2023: Jonas Kakó, The Dying River

Field of View: The Bombing of Hiroshima, Part 1 - Photographing the incomprehensible, from the sky. | by Patrick Witty

Field of View: The Bombing of Hiroshima, Part 2 - Photographing the incomprehensible, from the ground. | by Patrick Witty

Field of View: The Bombing of Nagasaki, Part One - On August 9, 1945, Charles Levy captured an iconic photo with his own camera because the official cameraman … | by Patrick Witty

Albuquerque Journal: Santa Fe's Monroe Gallery presents 'Good Trouble' taking a look at the impact of activists | Kathaleen Roberts

Blind: Hiroshima, Mon Amour - In Hiroshima Graph: Everlasting Flow, Yoshikatsu Fujii tells the story of his grandmother, a survivor of the catastrophe | by Iris Mandret

Lens Culture: Articles of Virtu | photographs by Bryan Birks
Text by Magali Duzant

The Guardian: ‘There’s nothing quite like them’: Saul Leiter’s photos and paintings

Blind: W. Eugene Smith and the Largest Stories of his Career explored in two books by Sam Stephenson | by Robert E. Gerhardt

Leica Camera Blog: Woven Fabric: Using a weaving technique, photo artist Sabine Wild produces amazing analogue structures for her digital images.

Lenscratch: Photographers on Photographers: Semaj Campbell in conversation with John Henry

The Guardian: Nomads of the sea: stateless Bajau face up to a future on land | Words and photographs by Claudio Sieber

NY Times: I Wanted to Capture the Fleeting Magic of a Summer at Camp in Photographs | Photos and text Josephine Sittenfeld

Lenscratch: Zachary Kaufman in Conversation With Matt Eich

Aperture: Japan’s Unparalleled History of Photography in Print | by Lena Fritsch

Creative Boom: Photographer Jeff Rothstein on taking inspiration from New York City's aliveness | by Olivia Atkins

Print: The Daily Heller: A Lost Photographer of the Creative Revolution

ASX: Robert Frank Interviewed at Wellesley College (1977)

PetaPixel: Photo Agencies Publish Open Letter Demanding AI Copyright Protection | by Matt Growcoot

BJP: ‘I could have been one of these girls’: Ana María Arévalo Gosen Documenting Venezuela’s teenage pregnancy crisis | by Philippa Kelly

The Guardian: California dreamin’: scenes of Black joy and leisure in the Jim Crow era

Culture, Art and Design

RV/Tailor park. Crescent City, California. 20 October 2012 Photo Robert Gumpert

Le Monde: Global warming is challenging France's regional and cultural identity | by Matthieu Roar

Financial Times: Inside the world’s oldest lithography store, printer to Giorgio de Chirico and Cy Twombly | by Ana Vukadin

Rolling Stone: Neil Young’s Lost Album ‘Chrome Dreams’: Track by Track | Andy Greene

The Blue Moment: The grain of sound - The Blind Boys of Alabama’s new release | by Richard Williams

Hyperallergic: The Candid Visual Storytelling of Deb JJ Lee | Rhea Nayyar

The Guardian: ‘It’s already way beyond what humans can do’: will AI wipe out architects? | by Oliver Wainwright

LA Times: How the 'Dark Winds' Season 2 cast got Navajo culture right | by George R. Joe (“Dark Winds” Navajo cultural advisor)

The Hollywood Reporter: Why ‘Reservation Dogs’ Director Danis Goulet Portrayed Reservation Schools Like a “Horror Movie” | by Abbey White

New City: So Near and Yet So Far: A Review of “Enduring Ties, Resilience and Longing in Cuba” | by Susan Aurinko

Detroit News: Rodriguez, subject of Oscar-winning doc "Searching for Sugarman," dies at 81 | by Louis Agullar

The Guardian: Robbie Robertson obituary | by Richard Williams

NY Times: After a Flood, Saving Appalachia’s History Piece by Piece | by Remy Tumin

It’s Nice That: Hussein Shikha celebrates the rich history of Iraqi carpets | by Olivia Hingley

El País: Puerto Rico: The origin, evolution and future of reggaeton | by Pablo De Llano

The New Yorker: The First Magician on the Vegas Strip | by Susan Orlean

Artsy: Why “Quiet Luxury” Is Taking Over Painting, Too | by Charlotte Jansen

Hyperallergic: The Black History of the Montgomery Brawl Folding Chair | by Rhea Nayyar

The Guardian: Why are Black rappers aligning themselves with the right? | by Tayo Bero

Other Stuff

The New Yorker: What the Webb Space Telescope Will Show Us Next | by David W. Brown

The Appalachian Voice: Chasing the Light of Bioluminescence | by Matt Dhillon

Venture Beat: OpenAI launches web crawling GPTBot, sparking blocking effort by website owners and creators

ARS Techica: AI researchers claim 93% accuracy in detecting keystrokes over Zoom audio | by Kevin Purdy

The Delacorte Review: Beirut, at Sunset | by Tamara Shade

Washington Post: Man returns to Denmark after traveling to every country without flying | by Kyle Melnick

Washington Post: How 1st Amendment auditors are changing policing, helped by YouTube | by Robert Klemko

PetaPixel: Scientists Explain Cosmic ‘Question Mark’ That Puzzled the Internet | by Jeremy Gray

Nautilus: Have We Gotten Dark Matter All Wrong? | by Paul M. Sutter

Nautilus: The Quirky Muon Just Might Spur a Physics Breakthrough—Again | by Jennifer Ouellette

Design Boom: MIT’s Lab Uses the Power of the Ocean to Grow Islands | by Christina Petridou

Print: Typotheque’s Peter Bil’ak on How Font Foundries Can Keep Centuries-Old Languages Alive | by Angela Riechers

Washington Post: Supreme Court pauses Purdue Pharma settlement plan worth billions | by David Ovalle

SF Standard: People Are Having Sex in Robotaxis. Nobody Is Talking About It | by Liz Lindqwuster

Labor

NY Times: Striking Actors Are Turning to Cameo for Extra Cash | by Perri Ormont Blumberg

Vulture: VFX Workers Vote to Unionize at Marvel for the First Time | by Chris Lee

Civil Eats: Threatened by Climate Change, Food Chain Workers Demand Labor Protections | by Grey Moran

The Guardian: Amazon starting to track and penalize workers who work from home too much | by Kari Paul

NY Times: Move or Quit: Grindr Dictates New Office Rules Amid Union Drive | by Emma Goldberg

Headbanging Headlines (The Clarence Thomas Special Edition):

Late night on bail bond row across the street from the San Francisco Jail and courts. 1986 Photo: Robert Gumpert

NYT: Clarence Thomas gave elite group 'unusual' access

ABC News: New report says Justice Clarence Thomas accepted payments from GOP megadonor

Washington Post: Wife of Justice Clarence Thomas received thousands in hidden payments

ProPublica: Clarence Thomas and the Billionaire

BBC: Supreme Court's Clarence Thomas defends luxury trips

Yahoo News: Trump lawyers saw Justice Thomas as key in plan to overturn 2020 election, emails show

Business Insider: Clarence Thomas purchased his luxury RV with the help of a wealthy former healthcare executive

Rolling Stone: Investigation Uncovers More of Clarence Thomas’ Undisclosed Freebies from Wealthy Pals

NBC Sports: Clarence Thomas received a Super Bowl ring from Jerry Jones

The Hill: The Supreme Court’s excuses for ethics violations insult our intelligence

ProPublica: The Other Billionaires Who Helped Clarence Thomas Live a Luxe Life

And too many more to list …

Headbanging Headlines

The Guardian: Videos denying climate science approved by Florida as state curriculum

Hoodline: San Francisco Doom Loop Tour Sold Out

Podcast

Desert Island Discs: Shirley Collins, folk singer, shares the soundtrack of her life with Lauren Laverne

BBC The Food Chain: The Little Italy story

Distillations: Science History Institute: The Mothers of Gynecology - US maternal mortality rate is abysmal, and over the past five years it’s gotten worse. There are huge racial disparities … | Host: Alexis Pedrick Senior Producer: Mariel Carr Producer: Rigoberto Hernandez Associate Producer: Padmini Raghunath Audio Engineer: Jonathan Pfeffer “Innate Theme” composed by Jonathan Pfeffer. Additional music by Blue Dot Sessions.

Exposed Negative: S2 #17 - Wet Plate: Finding and funding the personal project w/ Jack Lowe

Books

Lit Hub: Divine Heists, Deep-Sea Discoveries, and Climate Utopias: August’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books | by Natalie Zutter

Print: 10 of the Best Independent Magazines Right Now | by Steven Watson

Wallpaper: Will Vogt’s photo book ‘These Americans’ is a deep dive into a world of privilege and excess, spanning 1969 to 1996 | by Sophie Gladstone

Social Issues

SF Chronicle: S.F. neighborhood lashes out at housing development planned for de facto ‘town square’ | by J.K. Dineen

ProPublica: EPA Approved Chevron Fuel Ingredient With Sky-High Cancer Risk | by Sharon Lerner

The Guardian: Forget Instagram influencers, Sinéad O’Connor showed mental illness as it truly is | by Hannah Jane Parkinson

Mission Local: SF inmates sue in federal court for access to sunlight in jail | by Elena Balakrishnan

Huck: How housing segregation continues to shape London for the worse | by Philippa Kelly

London Review of Books: False Dichotomies | by Rebekah Diski

Washington Post: Louisiana's sea level rises, taking swamps and hurricane protection with it | by Chris Mooney, Zoeann Murphy, Ricky Carioti, John Muyskens

The Guardian: Legionella discovery forces asylum seekers off Bibby Stockholm days after arrival | by Rajeev Syal and Diane Taylor

Washington Post: Leading Israel scholars invoke ‘apartheid’ in critique of status quo | by Ishaan Tharoor

NY Times: Why an Unremarkable Racist Enjoyed the Backing of Billionaires | by Jamelle Bouie

Division Street

WHAT DO YOUR PROCESSIONS MEAN TO YOU? “We’re all energy and matter, right? I don’t know how many lives I’ve lived or how many I will live but for some reason I feel like, …., great love from different stories that somehow find their way to me in the things that surround me. Especially being away from my family, I mean, your things hold memories, hold you here. When you have nothing but your things and then that’s taken from you, you truly have nothing.”

BEING A WOMAN ON THE STREETS: “Unfortunately I’ve been raped, more than once here in the City. And I’ve been in an abusive relationship. Lucky I have made a few close friends, not many, but one or two that I’m really blessed to have in my life because on my own I wondered. I would just walk until until I was so exhausted that I would collapse. I would try and choose somewhere public, even if it was only twenty minute intervals of sleep before they would be like “get off the sidewalk” or whatever.”

”Having a friend with me, and we pair up and stay together, we feel safer. Strength in numbers, for sure.”

Tent mates Tink Zorn, 40, unhoused since 2020 in San Francisco, and Cathy Pennington, 34, unhoused for about 13 years. Their encampment is on the meridian at Potrero between Alameda and Division Streets. 07 August 2023. Photo: Robert Gumpert

Community
Tink: “Honestly I am differently blessed to have experienced homelessness. I know that sounds bazaar but I have met some of the most honorable, genuinely brilliant and spiritual beings that I think exist in this walk of life.”

”If I had not be on the streets and been in this situation I never would have interacted, I wouldn’t have sat down and had the conversations I’ve had, the experiences I’ve had. You know there is honor among thieves. It’s bazaar, but probably there is more honor among thieves than those people that follow the rules and don’t steal, don’t do drugs.”

”They’re what society would deem normal and acceptable and I’ve lived my whole life surrounded by people like that, and I’m not saying I don’t know a lot of amazing people, but I’m just pleasantly surprised. [Here are] very self sacrificing people, even when they have nothing, they give you what little they have.”

Cathy: “I would differently say yes, there is community. I can’t say I’ve made friends here, I’ve made family here. And the ones that I do call friends, is probably some of the closest I have. Back home I didn’t have friends as close as the ones I have now.”

See more of my photobook “Division Street”. Or see all the images and read all the stories by buying the book from Dewi Lewis

“Division Street” – Published by Dewi Lewis: Orders: U.S.A – Britain - Canada

07 August - 13 August 2023