29 January - 04 February 2024
Six years on the street, KC, 47 years old, packs up his makeshift shelter during a rain that has lasted all night. 18th Street and San Bruno Avenue. San Francisco, California.
Photo Robert Gumpert 04 February 2024
Photography
The Columbia Chronicle: Museum of Contemporary Photography opens its first Native American exhibition | by Maya Swan-Sullivan
My Modern Met: Ernest Cole’s Lost American Photos From the 1960s and 1970s Published for the First Time | by Jessica Stewart
Lens Culture: Great Portrait Advice from Award-Winning Photographers, Part 2
PhMuseum: PhMuseum 2024 Photography Grant
BBC: Exhibition celebrates work of newspaper photographer | by Vanessa Pearce
The Diplomat: The Uyghurs: Kashgar Before the Catastrophe | by Robert Gerhardt
The New Yorker: What Garry Winogrand Saw in Color | by Vince Aletti
The Guardian: Resukuence and bravery in Ukraine: Photo/Brussels festival 2024 | by Fiona Shields
The Guardian: How war destroyed Gaza’s neighbourhoods – visual investigation | by Niels de Hoog, Antonio Voce, Elena Morresi, Manisha Ganguly and Ashley Kirk
Vanity Fair: As Wars Rage in the Middle East, Anti-war Photographer Don McCullin Discusses “How Futile Violence Is” | by Mark Edward Harris
Lenscratch: Ian Howorth: A Country Kind of Silence | by Joe Cuccio
Time: East Palestine, One Year After Train Derailment | Photographs and Reporting by Rebecca Liger for Time. Story by Alejandro de la Garza
The Atlantic: Lost Photographs of Black America - Photographs by Ernest Cole found in a Swedish Bank Vault | By Vann R. Newkirk II
BJP: Remembering Brian Griffin (1948-2024)
The Guardian: ‘People said it did in his career’: 33 pictures that defined British politicians | by Jonathan Freedland
Lensculture: I Feel Like a Fish - Photographs by Jaisingh Nageswaran | Essay by Marigold Warner
Culture, Art and Design
Store window at the corner of 15th Street and Henry Adams. The Design District, San Francisco, California Photo Robert Gumpert 02 February 2024
National Gallery of Art: Mark Rothko - Paintings on Paper
Artsy: 10 Must-See Museum Exhibitions in 2024 | by Annabel Keenan
NY Times: When the Right Ignores Its Sex Scandals | by David French
El País: ‘They preferred me naked and silent’: ‘Emmanuelle,’ the erotic milestone that makes people uncomfortable 50 years later | by Ianko López
The Elephant: (Satire) Coronavirus Outbreak out of Control in the US | by Nina Moore
El País: ‘I should not have written ‘A Clockwork Orange’’: How Anthony Burgess came to disown his own novel | by Jaime Lorite
Letterform Archive: “Typographic Jazz: The Monoprints of Jack Stauffacher” Runs January 27 – May 26, 2024 (San Francisco)
Artsy: Kathia St. Hilaire Challenges Colonial Narratives in Her Collaged Canvases | by Maxwell Rabb
Letterform Archive: “Typographic Jazz: The Monoprints of Jack Stauffacher” Runs January 27 – May 26, 2024
The Guardian: Mark Kermode on… director Steve McQueen, a boundary-pushing master | by Mark Kermode
Books
Photo-Eye: Mirror City - Photographs by Harry Culy | review by Blake Andrews
Photobook Journal: Joel Meyerowitz – A Question of Color | Review by Gerhard Clausing
MACK: This Train - Justine Kurland
Dewi Lewis: STRÖMHOLM - Christer Strömholm
Photobook Journal: Breathing Space: Iranian Women Photographers | review by Gerhard Clausing
Aperture: 13 Photobooks that Envision Black Lives and Artistic Visions
Podcast
The Ezra Klein Show: The Strongest Democratic Party That Any of Us Have Ever Seen | interview with Simon Rosenberg
The Ezra Klein Show: ‘Why Haven’t the Democrats Completely Cleaned the Republicans’ Clock?’
Headbanging Headlines:
Truthout: Teen Charged With Murder After Officer Had Heart Attack While Assaulting Him
Other Stuff
An orange in a puddle of rain water at an encampment on Vermont near 14th street. San Francisco, California. Photo Robert Gumpert 02 February 2024
The Guardian: ‘Smoking gun proof’: fossil fuel industry knew of climate danger as early as 1954, documents show | by Oliver Milman
London Review of Books: In the Shadow of Silicon Valley | by Rebecca Sonia
JoeblogsF1: F1 Says No to Andretti | by Joe Saward
The Guardian: Why are moths attracted to lights? Science may finally have an answer | by Ian Sample
Reuters: OpenAI's ChatGPT breaches privacy rules, says Italian watchdog
The Bitter Southerner: Activated | Words by Tom Lee - Photos by Brian Palmer
The Guardian: ‘Certainly intimidation’: Louisiana sues EPA for emails of journalists and ‘Cancer Alley’ residents | by Oliver Laughland for the Guardian and Delaney Nolan for the Intercept
Time: East Palestine, One Year After Train Derailment | Photographs and Reporting by Rebecca Liger for Time. Story by Alejandro de la Garza
Washington Post: East Palestine derailment: Industry lobbies against new safety laws | by Tony Romm
Ars Technica: Google will no longer back up the Internet: Cached webpages are dead | by Ron Amadeo
Labor
Welder in a California central valley machine shop. Photo Robert Gumpert 2001
France24: AFP journalists rally for blocked Gaza colleagues
El País: The horrors experienced by Meta moderators: ‘I didn’t know what humans are capable of’ | by Josep Catà Figuls
Appalshop: (Youtube): UMWA 1970: A House Divided
Time: East Palestine, One Year After Train Derailment | Photographs and Reporting by Rebecca Liger for Time. Story by Alejandro de la Garza
The Guardian: ‘Certainly intimidation’: Louisiana sues EPA for emails of journalists and ‘Cancer Alley’ residents | by Oliver Laughland for the Guardian and Delaney Nolan for the Intercept
UN News: Gaza: UN rights experts condemn ‘killing and silencing’ of journalists
Social Issues
Homeless encampment below 280 and above the Silver Crest 24 hour cafe on Bayshore near Oakdale Ave. San Francisco, California Photo Robert Gumpert 02 February 2024
The New Yorker: “Do I Have to Come Here Injured or Dead?” | by Jonathan Blitzer
The Guardian: A North Carolina PFAS factory claims its emissions fell by 99.99%. A Guardian test reveals otherwise | by Tom Perkins, photos Justin Cook
El País: Inside the Facebook profile of a migrant smuggler | by Elías Camhaji
Noēma: The Potent Pollution Of Noise | by Jeffrey Arlo Brown
Convergence: First They Came For the Immigrants | by Max Elbaum
TPM: Dissenters Decry ‘Judge-Driven’ Mistakes As 8th Circuit Declines To Hear Major Voting Case | by Kate Riga
Washington Post: Republicans now say it might be okay to ignore the Supreme Court | by Aaron Blake
Time: East Palestine, One Year After Train Derailment | Photographs and Reporting by Rebecca Liger for Time. Story by Alejandro de la Garza
NY Times: A City Built on Steel Tries to Reverse Its Decline | by /santul Neckar; Photographs Akilah Townsend
Texas Observer: Teen Birth Rate Up in Texas After End of Roe | Lise Olsen
Division Street
A living space built around a freeway support and using the elevated roadway as additional shelter from the current rainstorms. Alameda at Utah streets. San Francisco, California
Photo Robert Gumpert 02 February 2024
ProPublica: When Families Need Housing, Georgia Will Pay for Foster Care Rather Than Provide Assistance | by Stephannie Stokes, WABE; Data analysis by Agnel Philip, ProPublica
Vice: Republicans Push To Legalize ‘Property Owners’ Killing Homeless People in Kentucky | by Roshan Abraham
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