22 January - 28 January 2024
An encampment area on 13th Street between Harrison and Bryant. San Francisco, California. Photo Robert Gumpert 22 January 2024
Photography
The Guardian: ‘I have nothing and everything’: America’s young travelers | by Mee-Lai Stone
National Gallery of Art: Ross J. Kelbaugh Collection
PhMuseum: Tips and Mistakes to Avoid When Applying to Photography Grants, Awards and Prizes
Blind: Rage Against the Machine: Tish Murtha’s Portrait of English Working Class | by Miss Rosen
Blind: Roger Mayne’s West London’s Working-Class | by Colin Pantall
The Leica Camera Blog: Marcio Pimenta - Finding Dawn
Aperture: How Gregory Halpern Found His Voice in Buffalo | Interviews by Brendan Embser
National Gallery of Art: Dorothea Lange: Seeing People
Magnum: Olay, the Debut Photobook by Emin Özmen
Monroe Gallery: The Movies
Eye: Overloading the page - A big survey of Dutch photobooks raises issues about visual editing and layout. | Critique by Rick Poynor
Archival Recordings 10: NOLA Field Trip + Recent Photography | by Kwasi Boyd-Bouldin
NY Times: Evelyn Hofer’s Photos That Capture the Soul of 1960s Dublin | by Erica Ackerberg
CNN: J.K. Bruce Vanderpuije: The hidden icon of African photography | by Zoe Whitfield
NY Times: Unboxing Thousands of Photos of New York City in the ’70s and ’80s | by Corey Kilgannon
Culture, Art and Design
New Orleans, Louisiana. Photo Robert Gumpert 1972
The Guardian: Off the charts: how a Polynesian canoe inspired a renaissance in traditional seafaring | by Brianna Randall in San Diego
Dazed: We have entered the age of TikTok face | Text Günseli Yalcinkaya
Huck: An Oral History of The Village Voice | text Josh Jones, illustration Emma Balebela
Wallpaper*: A hundred years of Triennale posters documented in a new book | by Rosa Bertoli
Wallpaper: ‘Heaven ’N’ Earth’: Sayre Gomez blurs the reality and illusion of Los Angeles | by Finn Blythe
Metropolis: How Can We Rethink Architecture and Design Models? | by Verda Alexander
Aeon: The architectural style wars have started all over again | by Owen Hatherley, edited by Cameron Allan McKean
NOÉMA: A Single Small Map Is Enough For A Lifetime | by Alastair Humphreys
Dazed: Colours! Paris Fashion Week street style takes notes from Nicki Minaj | text Elliot Hoste
Dissent: Marvel Studios has managed to recruit fans into rooting not just for its superheroes, but for the company’s business plan. | by Sam Adler-Bell
Flashbak: At Large in Leyton – A Walk Around The East London Manor 1989-1994 - Peter Marshall shows us a part of East London once made up autonomous republics and led by the 'World Fuhrer’
The Nation: What Naomi Klein Taught Me About Aaron Rodgers | by Dave Zirin
Books
Conscientious: A new view of photography - a review of Collaboration — A Potential History of Photography; edited by Ariella Aïsha Azoulay, Wendy Ewald, Susan Meiselas, Leigh Raiford, and Laura Wexler; photographs and texts by numerous authors
PhotoBook Journal: Magnum Magnum | review by Melanie Chapman
Huck: Jack Latham’s new photobook, Beggar’s Honey, is an unflinching look behind the curtain of the endless stream of content that dominates our lives. | text by Isaac Musk, photography Jack Latham
MACK: The Last Safe Abortion Carmen Winant (SPBH Editions)
Podcast
Points South: Episode 12: Points South Live: Otis Redding Foundation and Macon Music Revue
What the F-Stop: Life Through Photography: #18 Syd Shelton, a photographer and graphic designer
Headbanging Headlines:
The Guardian: Ohio senate overrides governor and blocks trans youth from receiving care
Mission Local: Sheriff will rehire ex-deputy behind SF jail ‘fight club’ scandal
Other Stuff
A sexworker and her arresting officer waiting in the overflow booking area of the jail. San Francisco, California.
Photo Robert Gumpert, from “Lost Promise: The Criminal Justice System 1994 - 1999
The Guardian: US single people under 50 having less sex since Roe overturned, study finds | by Carter Sherman
Washington Post: Most land hermit crab species now use plastic trash for shells | by Frances Vinall
NY Times: What Do You Call a Galaxy Without Stars? | by Dennis Overbuy
NY Times: Black Pastors Pressure Biden to Call for a Cease-Fire in Gaza | by Maya King
Labor
Delivery in Chinatown. San Francisco, California. Photo Robert Gumpert 2008
Washington Post: Teen jobs: More high schoolers are joining the labor force as part of a post-pandemic shift | by Abha Bhattarai and Lauren Kaori Gurley
The Guardian: Do you have text neck? How phones are affecting us physically | by Tik Root
Civil Eats: The Farmers Leaning On Each Other's Tools | The Farm Collective That’s Rebuilding the Rural Sharing Economy | by Gray Moran
Social Issues
Washington Post: ‘Doomsday Clock’ at 90 seconds to midnight amid nuclear and AI threats | by Adela Suliman
London Review of Books: The Case against Israel | by Selma Dabbagh
The Guardian: Alabama condemned for nitrogen gas execution: ‘They intended to torture him’ | by Sam Levine and Ed Pilkington
NY Times: Alabama Carries Out First U.S. Execution by Nitrogen | by Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs and Abbie Van Soickle
The Jurist: Mengele-Like Logic Underpins Alabama’s Plan to Gas a Man to Death | by Stephen Cooper, edited by Ingrid Burke Friedman | JURIST Editorial Director
NY Times: The Campus Wars Aren’t About Gender … Are They? | by Kate Zernike
NY Times: Dobbs Overturned Much More Than Roe v. Wade | by
Division Street
Scene of an encampment fire, 13th Street and Bryant. San Francisco, California. Photo Robert Gumpert 22 January 2024
SF Chronicle: Tiny home progress stalled in San Francisco, despite clear advantages
NY Times: The Man in Room 117 | by Ellen Barry
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