18 March - 24 March 2024
Richmond District colors - San Francisco, California. Photo Robert Gumpert 18 March 2023
Photography
Marlborough: Nightlife - Photographs by Berenice Abbott, Brassaï, Bill Brandt, Helmut Newton, Irving Penn, and Weegee
Magnum: The Coles of Tomorrow - An essay by Lindokuhle Sobekwa from “The House of Story,” a publication that brings together the work of four South African photographers, mentored by Sobekwa and Candice Jensen.
Magnum: The Making of Magnum Magnum
Huck: Photography Barry Lewis’ new book takes a look into a history that the Russian government would rather we all forgot. | by Miss Rosen
The Guardian: Houston’s Fotofest biennial 2024: Critical Geography | by Sarah Gilbert
National Gallery of Art: The Real Lives of People in Dorothea Lange's Portraits
NCPR: Journalists discuss haunting photos from Gaza and the choice to print them
Christine Spengler: Photomontages
BJP: “By showing the architecture, we’re able to understand the human condition” In Beirut, solar panels and water tanks tell a story of decline | by Ravi Ghosh, Photos Dia Mrad
Shinya Arimoto: Works
Lenscratch: From Here To The Horizon: Photographs In Honor Of Barry Lopez | by Linda Alterwitz
BJP: ‘Ray’s a Laugh’ continues to court controversy - A new version of Richard Billingham’s pioneering family project raises the same old questions around access, class and sensation | by Gordon MacDonald
Aperture: Naomieh Jovin’s Photo Collages of Haitian American Life - Merging family archives with her own photographs, the artist tells a story about immigration with the lives of women at the center. | by Edwidge Danticat
Culture, Art and Design
An RV at a trailer and RV trailer park near Crescent City, California. Photo Robert Gumpert 20 October 2012
El País: The melancholy of Route 66′s last witnesses: ‘There aren’t many of us left’ | by Ricardo de Querol
NY Times: Crafting a Universe in Clay | by Hilarie M. Sheets
SF Gate: The urban legend that won't die on this deadly Bay Area highway | by Susana Guerrero, Madilynne Medina
Zeteo: Trump, a ‘Bloodbath’, and the ‘Banality of Crazy’ | by Mehdi Hasan
Boston Magazine: Myles Connor, the World’s Greatest Art Thief, Is Alive and Well | by Carly Carioli
Creative Boom: Yuki Uebo's crowded illustrations are inspired by the hustle and bustle of Tokyo life | by Dom Carter
Print: The Daily Heller: India’s Crafts Transform Type
Meanwhile: #198 | by Daniel Benneworth-Gray
Bidoun: Laughter Was Our Inheritance - A Beirut Diary | by Edwin Nasr, photos Michele Aoun
Aeon: Societies of perpetual movement - Why do hunter-gatherers refuse to be sedentary? New answers are emerging from the depths of the Congolese rainforest | by Cecilia Padilla-Iglesias, edited by Cameron Allan McKean
NY Times: Tennessee Makes A.I. an Outlaw to Protect Its Country Music and More | by Emily Cochrane
NY Times: The Dinner Party That Started the Harlem Renaissance | by Veronica Chambers and Michelle May-Curry
Books
AnOther: Ibrahem Hasan’s 728-page book Yesterday, Come Closer explores the complexities of Palestinian life. “We’re not a monolith,” | text Maya Abuali
Schilt Publishing: The Information Front, #3. Ukraine – a decade of war
Podcast/Videos
Bell pepper. Photo Robert Gumpert 01 September 2012
Appalshop - Youtube: “Fast Food Women” | by Anne Lewis
The Documentary (BBC): Three Million: The f-word 3/5
Headbanging Headlines:
Mushroom. Photo Robert Gumpert 10 November 2012
The Guardian: Executives at Texas summit claim clean-energy transition is failing and say world should ‘abandon the fantasy’ of fossil-fuel phaseout
SF Chronicle: California insurance crisis: State Farm won’t renew 72,000 policies
TPM: Election Officials Get Pointers On How To Appear More Human To Extremists
Other Stuff
Haiti. Photo Robert Gumpert 1990
NY Times: If Nvidia Keeps Rising Like this, It Will Be Bigger Than the Global Economy | by Jeff Sommer
Wired: Why Elon Musk Had to Open Source Grok, His Answer to ChatGPT | by Will Knight
Scientific American: The Quest to Build a Truly Intelligent Machine Helps Us Learn about Our Own Intelligence | by George Musser
Techcrunch: Nvidia’s Jensen Huang says AI hallucinations are solvable, artificial general intelligence is 5 years away | by Haje Jan Kamps
Mission Local: The strange and terrible saga of Harlan Kelly: Prison for ex-PUC boss | by Joe Eskenazi
NY Times: Tesla’s Troubles Raise Questions About Its Invincibility | by Melissa Eddy and Jack Ewing
Market Watch: AI brings existential crisis for Apple, Salesforce and tech’s old guard: Partner or perish | by Jon Swartz
Slate: The Supreme Court’s conservatives are annoyed at the 5th Circuit. | by Mark Joseph Stern
ProPublica: Chinese Organized Crime Dominates America’s Illicit Marijuana Market | by Sebastian Rotella and Kirsten Berg, ProPublica, and Garrett Yalch and Clifton Adcock, The Frontier
Washington Post: Stormy Daniels doc is a portrait of a woman destroyed by Donald Trump | by Jada Yuan
Labor
The Guardian: US Volkswagen workers file for union election to join United Auto Workers | by Michael Saint
Portside: The Era of Abundant Labor Reporting Is Coming to an End | by Hamilton Nolan
Aeon: Why the emotional labour of hospital staff is dirty work | by Susanna Crossman, edited by Marina Benjamin
Social Issues - Election 2024
Lower Mission district, San Francisco, California. Photo Robert Gumpert 16 February 2016
The Philadelphia Inquirer: Donald Trump’s Horst Wessel moment | Will Bunch Newsletter | by Will Bunch
The Salt Lake Tribune: ‘We are losing our kids to a satanic cult,’ Sen. Tommy Tuberville warns during Utah campaign stop to endorse Republican U.S. Senate candidate Trent Staggs in the race to replace Utah Sen. Mitt Romney | by Bryan Schott
The Washington Post: Linda Wenhold absorbed Patriot Academy’s message that America is falling apart as it drifts from its biblical roots. Then she won a seat on her local Pennsylvania school board. | by Greg Jaffe
LA Times: One far-right leader ousted. Another barely hangs on. Is Shasta rejecting MAGA politics? | by Hailey Branson-Potts, Jessica Garrison
LA Times: Trump has big plans for California if he wins second term | by Doyle McManus
The Guardian: Jared Kushner says Gaza’s ‘waterfront property could be very valuable’ | by Patrick Wintour
Social Issues
The Bristlecone: The Case Against The Case Against YIMBYism - A response to Michael Friedrich's "The Case Against YIMBYism.” | by Ned Resnikoff
The New Republic: Elon Musk Leads America’s Top Tax-Dodging CEOs | by Jason Linkins
BBC: San Quentin begins prison reform - but not for those on death row | by Madeline Halpert
The Guardian: Disputed medical terms used to explain dozens of deaths after police restraint in UK | by Shanti Das
LA Times: The end of Skid Row's cheap hotels? L.A. leaders want to replace homeless housing | by Liam Dillon, Doug Smith
NY Times: Chicago Begins Evicting Migrants From Shelters, Citing Strain on Resources | by Miriam Jordon
LA Times: California communities are banning syringe programs. Now the state is fighting back in court | by Emily Alpert Reyes
The Guardian: ‘Is this how I die?’ John Crace on his terrifying heart attack
The Washington Post: Women are getting off birth control amid misinformation explosion | by Lauren Weber and Sabrina Malhi
Division Street
Koreatown, Los Angeles, California. Photo Robert Gumpert 23 November 2018
The Bristlecone: Vacancies are a Red Herring - We have a homelessness crisis because we don't have enough housing. | by Ned Resnikoff
The Guardian: Florida is seeing an increase in homelessness. A Republican bill could make it worse | by Richard Luscombe
Dezeen: "Social housing has become a matter of enclaves and micro-sites” | by Owen Hatherley
Barn Raiser: Taking Stock of Rural America’s ‘Hidden’ Homeless | by Kristi Eaton
Washington Post: Wealthy Sedona’s answer to housing crisis: A parking lot to sleep in | by Ben Brasch
BBC News, West Midlands: Marc Davenant’s images of 'Harrowing' stories of homelessness and slum housing | by Vanessa Pearce
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