10 June - 16 June 2024
Someplace in the West, and a memorial to someone who died along the highway in central California. Photos: Robert Gumpert
Photography
Zeteo: EXCLUSIVE: Inside Israel’s Insta-Genocide | by Younis Tirawi and Eran Maoz
Borowiec Andrew: The Post-Industrial Rust Belt 2004-present
Natalia Neuhaus: Pandemic Burlesque
Fraction: Watershed: A Speculative Atlas of California by Barron Bixler
NY Times: Lyle Ashton Harris - A Photographer Widens His Gaze to Loss, and It’s a Gain | by Holland Cotter
Magnum: Lindokuhle Sobekwa
Joseph Bellows Gallery: Irving Penn - The Sober Elegance of Clarity
Lens Culture: Looking Back at a Giant of Taiwanese Photography - Chang Chao-Tang
The Guardian: Lisa Sorgini - ‘Protecting them is impossible’: raising children in a contaminated town
Field of View: The Dentist, The Anonymous Monk, and The Ultimate Protest | by Patrick Witty
Hammer and Hope: Atlantic Crossings - West African migrants in New York City | by Joseph Rodríguez and Waldemar Oliveira
BJP: Discover this year’s Portrait of Humanity shortlist | by Marigold Warner
BJP: ‘The rhythm of life beats in these images’: Meet the winners of Portrait of Humanity Vol. 6 | by Marigold Warner
Gregory Jundanian: Website - Projects
Aneesa Dawoojee: March of the Hunningbirds
Baudouin Mouanda: Le Ciel de saison
Copenhagen Photo Festival: Nordic Talents 2024
Javier Corso: Matagi
Spitalfields Life: So Long, Moyra Peralta
Rich Frishman: American Splendor
Lens Culture: Critics’ Choice 24
Print: Photographer Ivan McClellan Honors the Rich Tapestry of Black Rodeo Culture | by Charlotte Beach
PhMuseum: Tunnel | by Balaji Maheshwar
CNN: A photographer spent years memorializing some 300 sites of fatal police shootings across America | by Suyin Haynes
Diana Matar: My America - sites of fatal police shootings across America
Culture, Art and Design
Labor Day parade, Covington, Virginia. Photo: Robert Gumpert 1983
The New Yorker: A Portrait of Japanese America, in the Shadow of the Camps | by Hua Hsu
NY Times: As Asian groceries like H Mart, Patel Brothers and 99 Ranch expand, they are reshaping American eating habits, and the American grocery market. | by Priya Krishna - Photographs by Tommy Kha
Huck: Revisiting Casa Susanna, the legendary Trans refuge in pre-Stonewall America | by Miss Rosen
Orion: How to Salvage Treasured Books from Flood Damage | by Natalie Middleton
Mission Local: Scott Williams, ‘greatest of all stencil artists,’ dies at 67 | by Oscar Palma
LA Times: How celebrities, creatives fell in love with LA's Aardvark Letterpress | by By Jessica Ritz - Photography by Jess Stephens
Transom: The Storied Life | by Ray Christian
Metropolis: We Design Beirut Sheds Light on Lebanon’s Ever-resourceful Creative Community | by Adrian Madlener
Hyperallergic: How a Father-Daughter Duo Changed the Course of Textile Art - May and William Morris’s fascinating and complicated relationship deserves to be studied in its own right. | by Isabella Segalovich
Headbanging Headlines:
The Guardian: Appeals court tells Texas it cannot ban books for mentioning ‘butt and fart’
AP: A New York county with one of the nation's largest police forces is deputizing armed residents
Podcast
MediaStorm: Infinity Awards - Lifetime Achievement Ming Smith
The Moth: Ivan McClellan - photojournalist
Books
Land’s End, San Francisco, California. Photo: Robert Gumpert 2021
Conscientious: The Hampton Book | review by Jörg M. Colberg
Dewi Lewis: Petra Bašnáková’s Born of Sand and Sun
The Dial: The Meloni Way - How Italy’s prime minister uses lawsuits and intimidation to reshape the culture.
Nautilus: We Are Made of Waves - Everything in the universe, a playful new book argues, vibrates like a guitar string. | by Ash Jogalekar
Creative Boom: Starkly beautiful photobook captures the disappearing kiosks of the Eastern Bloc | by Tom May
Lenscratch: Rich Frishman: Ghosts of Segregation: Racism, Hidden in Plain Sight | by Aline Smithson
Other Stuff
LRB: Black Hole Flyby: Primordial Black Holes | by David Kaiser
Africa Is A Country: Between two evils | by Niall Reddy
Hammer And Hope: Anti-Arab Racism and the U.S. and Israeli War Machines
Ground Up: In photos: one of the worst places to live in Cape Town | Text by Mary-Anne Gontsana. Photos by Ashraf Hendricks.
Labor
Mountain State Spotlight: In one of the most dangerous workplaces in West Virginia, a poultry giant has profited from immigrant labor for decades | by Allen Siegler
NY Times: Supreme Court Ruling in Starbucks Case Curbs Labor Regulation | by Santul Nerkar and Noam Scheiber
Variety: Teamsters Leader Lindsay Dougherty on AI Trucks, Wages, and the Chance of a Strike: ‘It’s Unlikely’ | by Gene Naddays
Dezeen: Crafting the Present reveals manufacturing techniques behind mid-century furniture classics | by Amy Frearson
Social Issues
Quick Stop Mini Mart - Caruthers, California. Photo: Robert Gumpert 1999
Slate: The Biggest Lie Trump–Biden 2024 Rematch Voters Are Telling Themselves - The system will not inevitably “hold.” | by Dahlia Lithwick and Norman Ornstein
Mother Jones: Are You There, God? It’s Me, Justice Alito | by Kiera Butler
Dezeen: Palestinian architects are "banging on the door" to get into Gaza | by Jennifer Hahn
Division Street
Shelter on the 101 South on-ramp at Bryant and 10th Streets, San Francisco, California. Photo: Robert Gumpert 20 July 2020
NY Times: For an Older Homeless Population, a New Type of Car | by Jason DeParle
High Country News: California’s homelessness and climate crises leave unhoused communities vulnerable to floods | by Erin Oberly
