11 March - 17 March 2024
Tarp overing a tent at Bryant and Division streets, under the freeway. San Francisco, California Photo Robert Gumpert 12 March 2024
Photography
The New Yorker: Stephen DiRado’s A Begrudgingly Affectionate Portrait of the American Mall | by Margaret Talbot
Leica Camera Blog: Leica Women Foto Project Award 2024 are Luvia Lazo, Camille Farrah Lenain, Stasia Schmidt and Dola Posh
Autograph: Street Scenes from the East End, 1950-1980 The Photography of Bandele 'Tex' Ajetunmobi
Autograph: Art In Focus - Syd Shelton: Rock Against Racism
Autograph: Parity and Representation in Photojournalism
MoMA: An-My Lê Between Two Rivers/Giữa hai giòng sông/Entre deux rivières
Magnum: International Women’s Day 2024
Wallpaper*: From Wall Street to Studio 54: a short film celebrates Larry Fink | by Tianna Williams
Beware: A la découverte d’Andreas Gursky : Photographe de l’impossible | by Matthieu Garnier
The Eye of Photography: MYOP : Hemeria : Olivier Laban-Mattei & Lisandru Laban-Giuliani : Neige noire & Variations en solitude majeure
Blind: On Rana Plaza Collapse by Ismail Ferdous | by Amber Terranova
Lenscratch: The International Women in Photo Association Awards: Rayito Flores Pelcastre: Chirping of Crickets | by Sara Bennett
Lens Culture: Black and White War | Photos by Igor Malijevský, essay by Margold Warner
Creative Boom: Photographer Keisha Scarville wins the inaugural 2024 Saltzman Prize | by Dom Carter
Blind: The Street Under My Skin | Photos by Brice Gelot
NSD51/50: Projects - Brice Gelot
W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund: Irina Werning Receives 44th Annual Grant in Humanistic Photography for “Las Pelilargas,” Documenting the Power of Long Hair in Latin American Culture
Irina Werning: Las Pelilargas
Culture, Art and Design
Graffiti on a piece scrap iron hanging on a fence. San Bruno Avenue and 15th Street, San Francisco, California Photo Robert Gumpert 2 February 2024
Field of View: The Perfect, Imperfect Royal Family Photo | by Patrick Witty
LRB: Des briques, des briques - review of Steven Brindle’s Architecture in Britain and Ireland: 1530-1830 | by Rosemary Hill
Dezeen: Ten modernist council estates that made a "vital contribution" to London's architecture | by Cajsa Carlson
LA Times: Upheaval wrestles with tradition in Korean art of the 1960s and ’70s at the Hammer Museum | by Christopher Knight
Aeon: Why governments and business like to offload risk to individuals | by Suzanne Schneider, edited by Sam Haselby
The Guardian: ‘To the train lady with dark brown hair … ’: extraordinary stories of four couples who found love via small ads | by Amelia Tait
Books
Photo-eye Blog: Winogrand Color | reviewed by Blake Andrews
Photobook Journal: Ed Panar – Winter Nights, Walking | by Brian F. O’Neill
1000 Words: Teju Cole Pharmakon | review by Anneka French
Podcast
WTF-Stop: #19 Tony Othen - Life Through Photography
The New Republic: How the Media Whitewashes the Trump-MAGA Threat—Revealed by an Insider | with Greg Sargent
A Small Voice: 226 - Nicole Tung in conversation with Ben Smith
Other Stuff
Sleeping rough amongst large planters used all over San Francisco as homeless abatement. Turk between Van Ness and Franklin streets. San Francisco, California Photo Robert Gumpert 14 March 2024
NY Times: The Fourth Anniversary of the Covid Pandemic | by David Leonhardt
NY Times: The ZIP Code Shift: Why Many Americans No Longer Live Where They Work | by Emma Goldberg
CNN: Citizenship (Amendment) Act: India moves to implement controversial bill that excludes Muslims | by Heather Law, Vedika Sud and Tara John
CNN: Top news outlets acknowledge Hur’s characterization of Biden’s mental state didn’t match reality | by Oliver Darcy
SF Chronicle: Battle rages in Santa Cruz area over a fence blocking beach pathway | by Megan Fan Munce
Washington Post: Schumer calls for ‘new election’ in Israel in scathing speech on Netanyahu | by Liz Goodwin
Aljazeera: Former Trump official Steve Mnuchin puts forward plan to buy TikTok app
Labor
PM Press - kickstarter campaign: Coinciding with the 40th anniversary of the Miners’ Strike, Need Not Greed is a career-spanning collection of visual art by one of Britain’s greatest unsung political cartoonists - Alan Hardman.
NY Times: The Last Gold Beater in Venice | by Milena Lazazzera, photo Matteo de Mayda
LA Times: A farewell to the Los Angeles Times Olympic printing plant | photos by Genaro Molina
Social Issues - 2024 Elections
A little piece of street art. 9th Street near Mission Street. San Francisco, California Photo Robert Gumpert 12 March 2024
The Guardian: Missouri law prevents divorce during pregnancy – even in cases of violence | by Lizzie Tribune
NY Times: Why Is Congress Probing a Union for Being Anti-Israel? | by Michelle Goldberg
The New Yorker: Listened to Trump’s Rambling, Unhinged, Vituperative Georgia Rally—and So Should You | by Susan B. Glasser
The New Yorker: Mike Johnson, The First Proudly Truman Speaker | by David D. Kirkpatrick
Social Issues
Sleeping rough in a door way on 9th Street between Howard and Mission. San Francisco, California Photo Robert Gumpert 12 March 2024
The Guardian: Companies paid top executives more than they paid in US taxes | by Callum Jones
Mother Jones: Elon Musk Keeps Spreading a Very Specific Kind of Racism | by Arianna Coghill and Garrison Hayes
SF Chronicle: Monthly S.F. street party for 10,000 aims to break downtown’s doom loop | by Aidin Vaziri
McSweeney’s: The Supreme Court Decides This Year’s Best Picture Winner | by Jay Wexler
NY Times Magazine: Whitewash: The 50-year campaign to undo the progress of the civil rights movement in the name of “colorblindness” | by Nikole Hannah-Jones, Photo Illustration Mark Harris
Division Street
Waiting at the intersection of 11th, Bryant and 13th streets before catching a bus. L) Anthony Luciano, 36. Unhoused for 2.5 years. He was recently assaulted by a security guard at a Safeway. R) Christoper Keys, 54, unhoused for about 4 years. San Francisco, California Photo Robert Gumpert 11 March 2024
SF Chronicle: S.F.’s first new office conversion projection in doubt as developer faces foreclosure | by Laura Waxmann
Dezeen: "Tiny homes are not the big solution to homelessness that we need” | by Cynthia Griffith
The Giro: More states are criminalizing the homeless population | by Josiah Bates
Dezeen: Social Housing series exploring the new wave of quality social housing being built around the world, and asking
SF Chronicle: S.F. hit with another lawsuit over drug crisis, alleging Tenderloin is a ‘containment zone’ | by Maggie Angst
LA Times: Federal judge seeks audit of L.A. homelessness programs | by Ruben Vives
LA Times: Editorial: Bass had a strong first year on homelessness. Year 2, L.A. needs more housing
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