25 March to 31 March 2024
Traffic heading south in the San Francisco Bay. San Francisco, California. Photo Robert Gumpert 2004
Photography
Lecia Camera Blog: Werner Bischof: Photographer, Artist, Witness
Lenscratch: Artists of Türkiye: Erdem Varol | by Mehves Lelic
Aperture: Gerald Annan-Forson portrayed Ghana in the 1970s from an intimate perspective, telling a spectacular story of political and social change. | by Jesse Weaver Shipley
Rob Hornstra: Stories
Museo Palacio de Bellas Artes: Flor Garduño. Senderos de vida
Reading the Pictures: Late-Stage Abortion and the Changing Face of the Movement: Tracing our Post-Roe Coverage in 7 Photographs | by Michael Shaw
World Press Photo: Special exhibition: Ties That Bind
Photograph: The Photography Five - Joel Myerowitz
Washington Post: James Whitlow Delano - Hauntingly beautiful photos of Japan’s icy and fragile other worlds | by Kenneth Dickerman
Royal Museums Greenwich: Capturing history: Jack Lowe and the RNL
Les Douches la Galerie: Art and Engineering
Polka: Haïti, Terre de Chaos, Dans L’Oeil de Corentin Fohlen | by Léonor Matet
Minimalism: B&W Minimalist Photography Prize’ 2024 Winners
Marion Goodman Gallery: Robby Müller: Polaroïds
My Modern Met: Photographer Docuements Turkey’s Decadent Abandoned Mosques | by Jessica Stewart
Peter Fetterman Gallery: Charles Harbutt
Flashbak: The Leopard And The Baboon: The Staging of a 1966 Classic Image
Aperture: What Christopher Gregory-Rivera Discovered in Puerto Rico’s State Secrets | Yxta Maya Murray
Pace Gallery: Josef Koudelka: Industry
Magnum: Abbas: 1944 – 2018
Alison Jackson: Mental Images
Culture, Art and Design
Cleaning the penguin exhibit at the California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco, California. Photo Robert Gumpert 25 March 2024
National Gallery of Art: Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction
Wallpaper*: Tour the Morgan Motor Company’s Worcestershire factory | by Jonathan Bell
Print: National Geographic’s Redesign Bridges Print Heritage & Digital Experience | by Amelia Nash
JSTOR Daily: Isabella Rosner’s Stitching Freedom showcases embroidered works made by the incarcerated and examines this craft’s historical popularity behind bars. | by Hannah Steinkopf-Frank
Huck: In her ongoing project, Fandom Unbound, photographer Rhynna Santos is creating the community she lacked in her youth. | by Miss Rosen
El País: The monumental legacy of Richard Serra, sculptor of steel and time | by Iker Seisdedos
Colossal: In Sand and Stone, Jon Foreman Sculpts Hypnotic Gradients and Organic Motifs | by Grace Ebert
Searchlight New Mexico: A New Mexico childhood | by Deborah Jackson Taffa
Aperture: Ibrahim Ahmed’s compositions explore his upbringing across Kuwait, Egypt, and the United States—and the complex power of performance. | by Dalia Al-Dujaili
Paris Review: See Everything: On Joseph Mitchell’s Objects | by Scott Schomburg
Alison Jackson: Mental Images
Books
Conscientious: Rob Hornstra's Ordinary People
Photobook Journal: Morocco - Harry Gruyaert | by Melanie Chapman
The New Yorker: The Forgotten History of Hitler’s Establishment Enablers | by Adam Gopnik
Huck: Four years since countries across the world locked down, photographer Valentin Goppel revisits the experience of a suspended youth in new photobook ‘Between the Years’. | text Isaac Muk
Loosejoints: Hardtack | photos Rahim Fortune
Photobook Journal: Arthur Tress: Rambles, Dreams, and Shadows | review by Gerhard Clausing
Podcast
Appalshop: Coalmining Women
The Food Chain: Fasting and feasting
UNP: A Photographic Life, Episode 307: Photographer Michael Robinson Chávez
Ear Hustle: What's Up, Michael Freeman?
Headbanging Headlines:
The Guardian: Online conspiracy circles galvanize to proclaim Baltimore bridge collapse a ‘black swan event’
CNBC: A solution to the retirement crisis? Americans should work for more years, BlackRock CEO says
Washington Post: GOP official who claimed 2020 election was stolen voted illegally 9 times, judge rules
Other Stuff
While in port a marine oiler maintaining equipment in the engine room of a cargo ship in the Port of Long Beach, California. Photo Robert Gumpert 19 November 2008
CNBC: ‘Too early to judge’: Global carmakers contend with closure at busiest U.S. auto port | by Jenni Reid
Washington Post: See how the Key Bridge collapse will disrupt the supply of cars, coal and tofu | by Rachel Lerman, Hannah Dormido, Jeanne Whalen, Luis Melgar and Laris Karklis
El País: The blocked shipping route adds a new obstacle to a supply chain already affected by the problems in the Red Sea and Panama Canal | by Miguel Jiménez
The Conversation: Baltimore bridge collapse: a bridge engineer explains what happened, and what needs to change | by Colin Caprani
The Guardian: US maritime union sounds alarm over global shipping standards | by Michael Sainato
Washington Post: The Dali ship crew remains on board after hitting the Baltimore bridge | by Emily Davies and Rachel Weiner
The Lever: Feds Recently Hit Cargo Giant In Baltimore Disaster For Silencing Whistleblowers | by David Sirota, Freddy Brewster, Lucy Dean Stockton and Katya Schwenk
Washington Post: Robert Moses and the saga of the racist parkway bridges | by Glenn Kessler
Penguin exhibit at the California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco, California. Photo Robert Gumpert 25 March 2024
BBC: Jewish settlers set their sights on Gaza beachfront | by Orla Guerin
Tech Crunch: Apple sued, Microsoft’s AI ambitions and Nvidia’s surprises
Breaking the News: Election Countdown, 225 Days to Go: NBC News and the McDaniel Mistake. | by James Fallows
PetaPixel: Black Hole at the Center of the Milky Way Has Beautiful Magnetic Spirals | by Jeremy Gray
Nautilus: Forensics has reached the final frontier, and could be used to solve future space accidents—or crimes. | by Katharine Gammon
Science: The fern mandolin | by Margaret A. Handley
Labor
Sugarcane cutter on his way to work on the island of Negros, in the Philippines. In 2012 the Philippine sugarcane industry employed perhaps 700,000 sugarcane workers. (Wikipedia). Photo Robert Gumpert 1987
NY Times: We Spent Months With India’s Sugar Cutters. Here’s What We Found | by Megha Rajagopalan
ProPublica: As Wildfires Increase, the U.S. Is Losing More Wildland Firefighters Than Ever | by Abe Streep for ProPublica, illustrations by Hokyoung Kim, special to ProPublica
Washington Post: Walgreens owes $200K settlement in pregnancy discrimination lawsuit | by Jonathan Edwards
The Guardian: Low-income California Latinos at higher risk from Parkinson’s-linked weedkiller | by Tom Perkins
Social Issues - Elections 2024
Monitor in a medical facility, San Francisco, California. Photo Robert Gumpert 5 March 2008
NY Times: The Trumpification of Kristi Noem | by Vanessa Friedman
LA Times: L.A.'s political left looks to expand its power at City Hall | by David Zahniser
The Guardian: Overworked, underpaid, under attack: on the frontlines in a US election office | by Sam Levine
The New Yorker: What Have Fourteen Years of Conservative Rule Done to Britain? | by Sam Knight
Mother Jones: Will RFK Jr. and Other Third-Party Candidates Help Doom Democracy? | by David Corn
Washington Post: Democrat who ran heavily on abortion rights, IVF wins Alabama special election | by Colby Itkowitz
Barron’s: Trump’s DJT Stock Boosts His Net Worth—and Raises Election Questions | by Matt Peterson
Social Issues
ProPublica: Health Insurers Have Been Breaking State Laws for Years | by Maya Miller and Robin Fields
The Guardian: Councils now sell off more houses than they build. Thatcher’s legacy, right to buy, is a failure | by Phineas Harper
SF Chronicle: As San Quentin’s Death Row empties, condemned inmates get a glimpse of hope | by Kevin Fagan
Slate: The anti-abortion endgame Erin Hawley admitted to the Supreme Court. | by Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern
Politico: Why Portland failed where Portugal succeeded in decriminalizing drugs | by Carmen Paul and Actor Hernández-Morales
Texas Monthly: Many in Bastrop Moved on From the Rodney Reed Trial. One Juror Couldn’t. | by Aisling Ayers
The City: Mayor Retains Controversial Rikers Commissary Contractor, Defying Comptroller’s Objection | by Reuven Blau and Bianca Pallaro
In These Times: Wealthy Corporations Are Paying Their CEOs More Than They Pay in Taxes | by Sarah Anderson, William Rice, Zachary Tashman
POY: OY81 Winners Gallery
PetePixel: Pictures of the Year Sparks Controversy, Awards ‘Disgusting’ War Photo Top Prize | by Jeremy Gray
Division Street
End of year memorial for the unhoused who died on the strikes during the year. San Francisco, California. Photo Robert Gumpert 21 December 2018
NY Times: The Mayor of Los Angeles Wants to Prove Homelessness Can Be Solved | by Jill Cowan
Dezeen: In this Social Housing Revival interview Kate Macintosh argues that a better way to address the UK's housing-affordability crisis would be a tax on land values. | by Nat Barker
Dezeen: Demolition of council estates "has peaked” | by Cajsa Carlson
The Guardian: Revealed: a California city is training AI to spot homeless encampments | by Todd Feathers
The New Yorker: Why New York Restaurants Are Going Members-Only | by Hannah Goldfield
Mission Local: Bernal Heights RV residents, pressured by city, vacate the hill |
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