10 July - 16 July 2023
Photography
Inverness, California. Photo: Robert Gumpert 2023
BBC: Ansel Adams: Eight of the most iconic photos of the American West | by Cath Pound
Howard Greenberg Gallery: Bruce Davidson - The Way Back June 23 - September 16
LFI: Jaroslav Kučera: Calm Before the Storm and his website
i-D: 100 years of genre-defining Japanese photography magazines - A glorious new tome shows how magazines in Japan served as laboratories of radical ideas | by Alessandro Merola
i-D: Photographing high school graduation on Hawaiʻi - Akasha Rabut captures the unique island flair of Hawaiian commencement ceremonies | by Erica Escalante
Aperture: The Photographers Who Captured Love and Longing
An exhibition at the International Center of Photography offers an expansive take on how images can be used to create, sustain, and destroy intimacy | by Kaelen Wilson-Goldie
Aperture: An Asian American Family’s Public History and Private Rituals - In his photographs, Jarod Lew asks his family to reenact scenes from everyday life, invoking stories that wrestle with the tensions between control and care | by Simon Han
Phmuseum: Transient Ties | by Michaela Nagyidaiová
Eiji Ohashi: Roadside Lights I
Eiji Ohashi: Identity as Uygur
The Guardian: A World in Common: Contemporary African Photography review – exhilarating, dynamic, profound | by Laura Cumming
The Guardian: Brothels, bartenders and film stars: Eve Arnold’s women | by Mee-Lai Stone
Civil Eats: A Cooperative Farm’s Long Path to Liberation for Farmworkers | by David Bacon
Lens Culture: Homage | Photomontage and text by Cornelia Hediger With comments by Deborah Klochko and Azu Nwagbogu
Blind: In Arles, Jacques Léonard’s Snapshots | by Sophie Bernard
LFI: Look Me in the Eyes
Field of View: The Beginning of the End of the World | by Patrick Witty
Culture, Art and Design
The Tennessee Grill. Taraval St and 21st and 22nd avenues. Parkside district San Francisco, California. Photo: Robert Gumpert 2023
The Art Newspaper: Carrie Mae Weems: the photographer recreating and reframing famous historical moments | Interviewed by Louisa Buck
The Amsterdam News: New museum in Alabama tells history of last known slave ship to US and its survivors | by The AP
Print: Find “Your Type” in This Washington Post Interactive Story | by Kim Tidwell
Washington Post: What’s your type? Try these tests to pick the perfect font for you. | by By Emma Kumer, Geoffrey A. Fowler and Leslie Shapiro
McSweeney’s: Your OBGYN’s Pain Scale: An interpretive Guide | by Karen Allen
Washington Post: Opinion Photos don’t always tell the whole truth. Is that a bad thing? | by Daniel Etter
The Guardian: ‘A crisis unlike any other’: famed LA theater cancels upcoming season amid financial woes | by Gloria Qladipo
Designboom: UAE's Africa Institute cancels David Adjaye-designed campus in Sharjah | by Myrto Katsikopoulou
The Atlantic: A Year of Amazing Images From the James Webb Space Telescope | by Alan Taylor
The Blue Moment: Under the same sky | Richard Williams
L.A. Taco: El Sereno's Guerrilla Gardeners Sow Native Plants To Resist Gentrification In Developer-Contested Land | Daniel Thalkar
The Blue Moment: Northern Soul at the Albert Hall | Richard Williams
Other Stuff
Propublica: Right-Wing Websites Scam Loyal Followers With Phony Celebrity Pitches | by Craig Silverman
NY Times: The Afterlife of Forlorn Office Furniture | by Stefanos Chen
NPR: The Anthropocene began in 1950s, scientists say
Washington Post: NASA releases spectacular image to celebrate James Webb Space Telescope | by Joel Achenbach
NY Times: To Help Cool a Hot Planet, the Whitest of White Coats | by Cara Buckley
Labor
UAW Local 259 member. Service Department, Potamkin Cadillac. New York City 1982. Photo: Robert Gumpert 1982
Mission Local: Last call: Anchor Brewing bids adieu, and another piece of San Francisco dies | by Joe Eskenazi
Washington Post: Anchor Brewing, known as oldest U.S. craft brewery, closes after 127 years | by Praveena Somasundaram and Lyric Li
L.A. Taco: The Truth About the Los Angeles Hotel Workers’ Strike | by Mark Kreidler
Books
Issuu: Hoja Santa | by Maciejka Art (Maya Art) Winner of the LUMA Rencontres Book Dummy Award 2022 – Designed by Ramon Pez – shipping in August from Dewi Lewis
Social Issues
Poster on the old Mission Police Station wall. Valencia between 23rd and 24th streets. Photo: Robert Gumpert 2023
Cal Matters: This California town was already dying. Then the state moved to close its prison | by Nigel Duara
Wired: Why We Don’t Recommend Ring Cameras - They’re affordable and ubiquitous, but homeowners shouldn’t be able to act as vigilantes | by Adrienne So
The Guardian: I started work as a prison officer full of optimism, but in a rat-infested jail I saw the ugly, violent reality | by Alex South
Slate: Justice Samuel Alito IS the Salmon - Calling this an ethics scandal misses the point. | Dahlia Lithwick
The Amsterdam News: Historic Tulsa reparations lawsuit dismissed, sheds light on ongoing disparities | by NNPA Newswire Senior Correspondent Stacy M. Brown
LA Times: The Chicano Moratorium 50 Years Later - A multi part project
Creative Boom: Dealing with burnout? How creatives can boost their mental health in 2023 | by Tom May
Mother Jones: A Teen Died in a Sawmill Accident as Republicans Push to Roll Back Child Labor Laws - Department of Labor statistics show a steady uptick in child labor violations in recent years | by Abigail Wenberg
SF Chronicle: ‘I’m being treated like an addict’: A new kind of drug crisis is descending on the Bay Area | by Nuala Bishari
Division Street
Sidewalk message. Langton St near Harrison, near the jail. South of Market district. Photo: Robert Gumpert 2023
ProPublica: Checked Out: How LA Failed to Stop Landlords From Turning Low-Cost Housing Into Tourist Hotels | by Robin Urevich, Capital & Main, and Gabriel Sandoval, ProPublica, photography by Barbara Davidson for ProPublica
Mission Local: In reversal, Bayview homeless RV site at Pier 94 to stay open—for now | by Joe Riven Barros
Cal Matters: ‘Go to the people’: Street medicine teams bring health care to the unhoused | Larry Valenzuela
SF Standard: Line for San Francisco Homeless Shelters Surges in First Week of New System | by David Sjostedt
SF Chronicle: Deporting Honduran migrants won’t solve S.F.’s drug crisis. The Chronicle’s investigation shows why
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