21 August - 27 August 2023 — Robert Gumpert

Ocean Beach as seen from the just south of the Cliff House. San Francisco, California. Photo Robert Gumpert 21 August 2023

Photography

Blind: Daido Moriyama: A Retrospective | by Robert E. Gerhardt

i-D: Allen Ginsberg's vintage portraits of the Beat generation | bu Lydia Files

i-D: Frank Stewart took his first photographs at the March on Washington for Freedom and Jobs in 1963 and never looked back. | by Miss Rosen

Artsy: 11 Contemporary Artists Working in Abstract Photography | by Elyssa Goodman

Creative Boom: BikeLife: Matthew Joseph captures the humanity of a misinterpreted underground movement | by Dom Carter

Field of View: The Bombing of Nagasaki, Part Two | by Patrick Witty

Frieze: Nuku Studio Sees Photography as a Catalyst for Social Change | by Vanessa Peterson

Aeon: Exposed - Slum photography was at the heart of progressive campaigns against urban poverty. And it was a weapon against poor people | by Sadie Levy Gale, edited by Marina Benjamin

Thames&Hudson: What happens when we look: David Campany on photography’s flux | by David Campany

Culture, Art and Design

The Guardian: Huge decline of working class people in the arts reflects fall in wider society | by James Tapper

Five Things Seen and Heard: Thursday, August 22rd | Six Robbie Robertson Songs & Performances for the ages | Martin Colyer

School of Visual Arts: SVA Celebrates Its Subway Posters Series with a Retrospective Exhibition ‘Underground Images: A History’ opens on August 29 in New York City.

Dezeen: Notan Office creates "micro-city" of housing on an industrial site in Brussels | by Betty Owoo

Hyperallergic: Stipan Tadić’s From Brooklyn to the Bronx in 36 Paintings | by Elaine Velie

Evening Standard: The India Club: Historic Indian restaurant to close after more than 70 years | by Josh Barrie

LA Times: Concerts, movies, airplanes: Why bad behavior is on the rise | by Mary McNamara

The Marshall Project: Redemption Songs: The Forgotten History of American Prison Music | by Maurice Chammah

El País: Graffiti: More than writing on the wall | by David Dorenbaum

Psyche: This is how to nurture curiosity in children (and yourself) | by Shana Love, edited by Matt Huston

The Guardian: Orcas accused of attacking boats may be ‘following fad’, scientists say | by Phoebe Weston

Other Stuff

Dezeen: "The design professions are not stepping up to address the wildfires problem” | by Greg Kochanowski

The Guardian: US businessman is wannabe ‘warlord’ of secretive far-right men’s network | by Jason Wilson

The New Yorker: Elon Musk’s Shadow Rule | by Ronan Farrow

Salon: "I've never seen anything like it": Economic analyst stunned at sources of Jared Kushner's funds | by Tatyana Tandanpolie

Labor

Mission Local: Uber & Lyft drivers shrug at robotaxi future: ‘It’s bound to happen’ | by Yujie Zhou

SF Chronicle: Cruise, Waymo cars make these errors on SF streets in front of drivers

Jacobin: Shawn Fain Is Right: The Workweek Should Be Shorter | by Alex N. Press

LA Times: How writers', SAG strikes inspired global worker solidarity | by Mary McNamara

SF Chronicle: Why the AI boom is different from San Francisco’s last tech surge | by Chase DiFeliciaantonio

Headbanging Headlines:

Washington Post: San Francisco Catholic Archdiocese files for Chapter 11 over sex abuse lawsuits

The Guardian: NHS cancer targets breached 1m times since Rishi Sunak became PM

History Channel (youtube): Ancient Aliens: Amazing Sphinx Connection to Lost City of Atlantis

Podcast

The World in Time/Lapham’s Quarterly: Episode 102: Robert D. Kaplan

BBC - The Inquiry: Is work from home working?

Aeon: The rise and fall of Kowloon Walled City, Hong Kong’s infamous urban monolith (video)

Social Issues

A declarative statement on Division at Potrero. San Francisco, California. Photo Robert Gumpert 21 August 2023

Huck: How the Housing Crisis is Trapping People in Dangerous Situations | by Eve Upton-Clark

SF Chronicle: Drug overdose death rates for every US county

The Guardian: Wish you weren’t here! How tourists are ruining the world’s greatest destinations | by Zoe Williams

The Boston Globe: Frank Smith was locked up for eight decades. At 98, what would it mean to be free? | by Annalisa Quinn

CPJ: CPJ deeply disturbed by police raid on Kansas newspaper

NY Times: The 1963 March on Washington Changed America. Its Roots Were in Harlem | by Jon Leland

NY Times: The Silicon Valley Elite Who Want to Build a City From Scratch | by Conor Dougherty and Erin Griffith

Media Matters: Update: Under Linda Yaccarino, X is placing ads for major brands on a verified pro-Hitler account | by Eric Hananoki

Division Street

Truthout: Don’t Blame Drug Decriminalization for What the Housing Crisis Has Caused | by Morgan Godvin

Invisible People: Pipeline To Homelessness: Aging Out Of The Foster Care System | by Victoria Vandal

LA Times: Leasing is faster way to get the homeless housed

The Nation: Why the Right Is Winning Its War on Unhoused People | by Ned Resnikoff

LA Times: Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass scores a U.S. policy shift to expedite homeless housing | by Doug Smith

Jacobin: New Deal–Era Leftists Tried to Win Beautiful Social Housing for the Masses | by Gail Radford

Beyond Chron: Take Back the City | by Mike Miller

The Guardian: San Diego ramps up arrests of unhoused people: ‘Harder to survive’ | by Sam Levin

From the ongoing Division Street Project

Marcel McCraw, 51. Mr McCraw has lived in San Francisco for 51 years and been unhoused, off and on, for 18-19. Meridian on Potrero Avenue Photo Robert Gumpert 7 August 2023

Mr. McCraw’s Story:
I’m just struggling, man. Not just a year ago I was living in a box, just me and my puppy, and now I’m in a more structured environment even though I’m still out here. I’m still homeless. I am employed. I’m still struggling everyday situations out here, dealing with the shuffle [being told to move], that’s what I call it. I take it day by day man. I choose to just keep trying everyday, everyday no matter what and it’s hard. But what am I going to do, just lay down and stop? Can’t do that.

I felt like once I became employed that things would be different, [but] no it’s not like that. It’s even harder. Learning how to be responsible, practicing being responsible on a day to day basis verses having no worries, and no cares, is different. You got to become disciplined, in doing so you got to stop doing a lot of things you did before.

I’m older now, I don’t have too much time left. I’m thinking about what kind of legacy I want to leave out here to my kids and my younger generation of friends. A lot of very good people have died on these streets. For what? For nothing. I don’t want to be one of them.

See more stories and images of living on the street in 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

21 August - 27 August 2023