23 October - 29 October 2023
Halloween lawn display. Vicente and 16th, San Francisco, California. Photo Robert Gumpert 24 October 2023
Photography
The Guardian: ‘Women need to know it is no longer a crime’: Mexico’s abortion companions
Blind: The Many Lives of Jill Freedman | by Jonas Cuénin
Luca Locatelli: The Circle; and Future Studies 2012-2020 - series
Document: Marcus Maddox captures the everyday romance of the music scene | by Maraya Fisher
The Guardian: Hard-hitting images from the winners of the Ian Parry photojournalism | by Matt Fidler
Then There Was Us: London's David Hill Gallery presents 'Meeting at the Volta', a celebration of two remarkable African photographers, Sanlé Sory (b. 1943, Burkina Faso) and Kyle Weeks (b. 1992, Namibia) | by Josh Bright
Lenscratch: European Street Photography Wee: Kristin Van Den Eede: A Limit to the Dark | by Michael Honegger
Skirball Cultural Center (LA): This Light of Ours: Activist Photographers of the Civil Rights Movement
BJP: Co-curator Azu Nwagbogu explains how this year’s festival will resurface hidden histories – and why, for the first time, it’s expanded into Benin | by Diane Smyth
1000 Words: Daido Moriyama A Retrospective Exhibition | review by Mark Durden
Field of View: The End, and Beginning, of Life in Gaza - “One of the hardest days of my life, sadness and joy at the same time.” | by Patrick Witty
Creative Boom: Seymour Licht's photos of subway Halloween costumes are a time capsule of terror | by Dom Carter
The New Yorker: A Friendship in Photography - Brian Graham and Robert Frank | by Nicholas Dawidoff
Blind: “All these people paid the ultimate price, they did it for us”, Don McCullin | by Michaël Naulin
Blind: Belgian-Congolese photographer Leonard Pongo - Congo Waking Dream
Lens Culture: Sanctuary and Abjuration: Sentinels of the Ghostwood | Photographs by Anne Eder - Exhibition review by Liz Sales
BJP: Photojournalist Mariusz Smiejek has spent much of his life attempting to understand conflict in the North of Ireland | by Philippa KellySWI: How one woman led the charge in celebrating photography in Switzerland | Text by Monica Boirar; photos edited by Thomas Kern
Culture, Art and Design
Design business. De Haro between Berry and Division, San Francisco, California. Photo Robert Gumpert 23 October 2023
bellingcat: Separating Fact from Fiction on Social Media in Times of Conflict | by Charlotte Maher
The Real News Network: The Atlantic Magazine, covering Palestine without Palestinians | by Adam Johnson
The Baffler: Doomsday Diaries - October 7–17, 2023 | by Sarah Aziza
McSweeney’s: Sure, Trump is an authoritarian grifter, but at least he’s three years younger than Biden | by Noah Seligman
designboom: Nadine Abdul Ghaffar on the return of 'forever is now' art show at the pyramids of Giza | by Lea Zeitoun
Print: Basics Before Breakthroughs | by Rob Schwartz
BBC: Ancient rock carvings revealed by receding Amazon waters amid drought | by Constance Malleret
Formally Known As The Bollocks: John Peel Sessions
Aeon (video): A unique project frames college football as an intricately choreographed mass ritual | Director: Ian Forster
High Country News: A new film asks: how do you make art in a city you can’t afford? | review by Natalia Mesa
Thrillist: Cruising Low ‘n Slow with the Women Shaping New Mexico’s Lowrider Scene | by Vanita Salisbury
El País: ‘The artist the world needs today’: The largest Rothko exhibition ever arrives in Paris | by Álex Vicente
AnOther: The Enduring Relevance of Rothko’s Magnificent Abstract Expressionism | by Daisy Woodward
Artsy: Mark Rothko Gets a Radical Rethink at the Foundation Louis Vuitton | by Julie Baumgardner
The Guardian: Cold war satellite images reveal hundreds of unknown Roman forts | by Caroline Davies
Print: The Daily Heller: The Abandoned American Shopping Cart
Hyperallergic: A Deep Dive Into the Underground World of Zines | by Maya Pontone
Hyperallergic: New York Jewish Book Festival Returns for Second Run | by Elaine Velie
Other Stuff
Amusement park in Old Orchard Beach, Maine during Memorial Day weekend. Photo: Robert Gumpert 1986.
The Dial: The Gun Show Cowboy Crackdown - Mexico is suing U.S. gun manufacturers for fueling violence in its territory. | by Chantal Flores
Jacobin: The Failures of Neoliberal Governance Paved the Way for Uber’s Conquest of the City | by Katie J. Wells, Kafui Attoh, Declan Cullen
Washington Post: From doom to boom: AI is slowly re-energizing San Francisco | by Danielle Abril
Aeon: Panspermia - It’s possible that frozen worlds with subterranean oceans are incubators of organic life. But then how did life get here? | by Balazs Bradak, edited by Pam Weintraub
Tech Policy Press: What is Media Diversity and Do Recommender Systems Have It? | by Priyanjana Bengani, Jonathan Stray, and Luke Thorburn
Courthouse News Service: Research indicates your favorite music can reduce sensations of physical pain | by Sam Ribakoff
404: From High Life Hackers to National Menace: The Rise and Fall of Digital Bandits ‘ACG' | by Joseph Cox
Dezeen: UN reports 40 per cent of Gaza's housing damaged during conflict | by Amy Peacock
Washington Post: Opinion | Race and colonialism are central to Israel-Palestinian conflict | by Karen Attiah
Labor
Maria. Mason Street near O'Farrell Street on the edge of the Union Square area. San Francisco, California. Photo Robert Gumpert 1996
The Guardian: Iceland’s first full-day women’s strike in 48 years aims to close pay gap | by Miranda Bryant
El País: Autoworkers strike at Stellantis plant shutting down big profit center, 41,000 workers now picketing
Beyond Caron: Picking at Fort Miley: SF Nurses Fight VA Scheduling Change Caused by Outsourcing & Cost-Cutting | by Suzanne Gordon and Steve Early
Portside: UAW President Shawn Fain: We’ve Reached a Tentative Deal With Ford After 41 Days on Strike | by Phoebe Wall Howard, Eric D. Lawrence, Jamie L. LaReau DETROIT FREE PRESS
Quartz: After UAW's tentative deal with Ford, all eyes are on General Motors and Stellantis - Ford has agreed to a roughly 25% pay increase over four years—will GM and Stellantis follow suit? | by Ananya Bhattacharya
AP: Auto workers and Stellantis each tentative contract deal that follow model set by Ford | by Tom Krisher
Headbanging Headlines:
Touch of Modern: Sex Toy Design: How Hard Can It Be?
LA Times: U-Haul with 2,000 pounds of marijuana in back crashes into Sierra Madre police station
El País: Investigation estimates that there are more than 440,000 living victims of sexual abuse that took place within the Spanish Catholic Church
Podcast
BBC The Conversation: Are dolls good for girls? Kim Chakanetsa speaks to a psychologist and a doll maker to discuss the impact of playing with toys on the brain
UN of Photography: Grant Scott talking with photographer Marc Wilson about the realities of creating Kick Starter campaigns to support and fund the publishing of personal photographic projects.
A Small Voice: Ben Smith talks with American photojournalist and human rights researcher, Corinne Dufka on her journey from social worker to photojournalist, baptism by fire in Bosnia, the epiphany that led her to walk away from photojournalism, curiosity, compassion, having an impact and why she doesn’t do ‘hopeless’.
Books
Print: 11 of the Most Dangerous Book Covers in America (!) | by Zachary Petit
PhMuseum: Photobook Review: Comings and Goings by Jim Goldberg | by Colin Pantall
Washington Post: 5 new mystery novels to read now | by Karen MacPherson
The Guardian: Sedition Hunters: how ordinary Americans helped track down the Capitol rioters | by Rich Tenorio
Social Issues
The Baffler: Doomsday Diaries - October 7–17, 2023 | by Sarah Aziza
NY Times: The Worst Scandal in American Higher Education Isn’t in the Ivy League | by David French
NY Times: A Project Supporting Migrants Was Cost Effective. Why Did It End? | by Megan Specia
Huck: The Battle to Safeguard Vital Forests on the Edge of the World | text Chris Hatherill; Photography by Jose Reyero, Marko Magister; Video by Jose Reyero; Illustrations by Lucy Han
Division Street
Sleeping rough in the shelter of a front end loader. Utah Street, just north of 17th. San Francisco, California Photo: Robert Gumpert 8 November 2019
SF Chronicle: SF’s homeless are 16 times more likely to die a sudden death | by Megan Fan Munce
Mountain State Spotlight: Parkersburg and Wheeling are trying to push homelessness out of the public eye. But for many, there’s nowhere to go | by Erin Beck
SF Public Press: After Massive Renovations, Code Violations Rise Steeply in Subsidized Housing | by Madison Alvarado
SF Public Press: Public Housing in Private Hands | by Madison Alvarado
See more of my photobook “Division Street”. Or see all the images and read all the stories by buying the book from Dewi Lewis
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