29 October - 05 November 2023 — Robert Gumpert

Morning light on one 1 Stuart Lane condo (center), one of a number of condominiums in the downtown area of San Francisco with high price tags and few buyers. San Francisco, California. Photo: Robert Gumpert 04 November 2023

Photography

Fraenkel Exhibitions: Hirshi Sugimoto Oct 26 - Dec 22, 2023

The Image Centre: Louie Palu: Cage Call

Blind: An Eyeful of Sport | by Iris Mandret

The Image Centre: Su Rynard: As Soon As Weather Will Permit | guest curator: Alexandra Gooding

Lens Culture: Arctic Dreams | Photographs by Mario Heller; Essay by Erik Vroons

Orion: The Pavement Surgeon - The anonymous, magical street art of EMEMEM

The Guardian: ‘Changing takes time’: how female photographers in Africa are redefining their lives | by Caroline Kimeu

The Guardian: Seymour Licht, What lurks beneath: demons and dead brides ride New York’s subway | by Mee-Lai Stone

The Guardian: Julie Glassberg - Dekotora: the decorated trucks of Japan | by Julie Glassberg

Aperture: How Can Photobooks Expand the Canon? | by Alistair O’Neill

Print: The Daily Heller: Gerard Malanga’s Iconic Photographs Thrill the Eye

The New Yorker: The Numbing Sameness of War Footage | by Jay Caspian Kang

Strangely Familiar: Photos by Peter Mitchell

The Image Centre: Stories from the Picture Press: Black Star Publishing Co. & The Canadian Press | Curators: Paul Roth, Gaëlle Morel and Rachel Verbin

Huck: A Great Day in the Stoke at Huntington Beach is a celebration of Black surfing and a call to make surfing inclusive for all. | Text by Jon Coen; Photography by Earl Gibson III

Denver Art Museum: Personal Geographies - Trent Davis Bailey ǀ Brian Adams

Eyeshot: A Stellar Array of Artistry in Street and Documentary Photography

Field of View: Patrick Witty - War Is The Most Violent Color - “I became a body without a soul."

Culture, Art and Design

El País: The wormhole that changed a novel | by Montero Glez

The Appalachian Voice: Castle in the Sun - Just For Kids Advocacy Center headquarters is now solar-powered | by Dan Radmacher

Appalshop: “A Dying Tradition” - accounts of the funeral practices and customs of dealing with death in the mountains | Produced by Emmitt Hamilton, Shannon Collins & Sharon Saylor

The Guardian: ‘This war is prophetically significant’: why US evangelical Christians support Israel | by Adam Gabbatt

Aesthetica: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera | by Niamh Coghlan

The Bitter Southerner: The Sounds of Science - the Moog synthesizer | by Deanna Cruz - Photos by Growl

Metropolis: Over the last few years, the Santa Monica, California, firm has evolved a new system of massing that opens homes up to space, light, and community. | by Sam Lubell

Segregation by Design: Los Angeles: Sugar Hill

LA Curbed: The Thrill of Sugar Hill | by Hadley Meares, photos Liz Kuala

AnOther: Lessons in Creativity: Rick Rubin & Jefferson Hack in Conversation

Psyche: Why spoken word poetry is so much more than a poetry reading | by Erica Fletcher; edited by: Christian Jarrett

Other Stuff

El País: Data | The female vote stems the tide of the far right in Europe and Latin America | by Borja Andrino and Monstse Hidalgo Pérez

Dissent: The Case for a Ceasefire | by Y. L. Al-Sheikh and Abe Silberstein

Dissent: The Habitation Economy | by Fred Block

BBC: Bowen: Five new realities after four weeks of Israel-Gaza war | by Jeremy Bowen

BBC: Israel Gaza: Father loses 11 family members in one blast | by Feral Keane

Washington Post: This is how AI image generators see the world - a world where our worst stereotypes are realized | by Nitasha Tiku, Kevin Schaul and Szu Yu Chen

Washington Post: How many arms do starfish have? If you said ‘five,’ you’re wrong. | by Dino Grandoni

The Conversation: The enduring appeal of Friends, and why so many of us feel we’ve lost a personal friend in Matthew Perry | by Adam Gerace

Nautilus: Have We Gotten Dark Matter All Wrong? Physicists have yet to pinpoint the hypothetical matter that keeps galaxies from flying apart. Now they have a new focus. | by Paul M. Sutter

NY Times: Videos and photos of the conflict are competing with misappropriated depictions of unrelated tragedies, a cycle that experts say diminishes the experiences of victims past and present. | by Angelo Fichera

Washington Post: AI chatbots can fall for prompt injection attacks, leaving you vulnerable | by Tatum Hunter

Labor

Auto assembly worker, and UAW member, at what was then the NUMI assembly plant for a joint venture between GM and Toyota. When the plant closed the facility was bought by Tesla and revamped to build the electronic auto. Fremont, California. Photo: Robert Gumpert 2003

The New Yorker: Will the U.A.W Strike Turn the Rust Belt Green? | by Dan Kaufman

Stansbury Forum: “Get Up, Stand Up – Stand up for your right”* | by Peter Olney and Rand Wilson

ProPublica: Why OSHA Doesn’t Investigate All Dairy Farm Deaths | by Maryam Jameel and Melissa Sanchez, and Co-published with USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin

LA Times: South Korea migrant workers face uncertain labor conditions | by Max Kim; Photos Marcus Yam

NY Times: Stabbed. Kicked. Spit On. Violence in American Hospitals Is Out of Control | video by Roland Kielman and Ryan Mercer. Text by Helen Ouyang

Headbanging Headlines:

NY Times: 'I don't recall this. I pour concrete. I operate properties.” Eric Trump on witness stand

Podcast

Manhattan garment shop worker, member of the ACTWU. New York City. Photo: Robert Gumpert 1983

BBC Outlook: Finding a rare portrait, and the boy hidden in its paint

BBC Sounds: The Cows Are Mad: Science has still failed to definitively answer two major questions about mad cow disease - where did it come from and how did humans get it?

LRB Podcast: What is British humour anyway? | by Jonathan Coe and Malin Hay

Haptic & Hue: Episode #44 The Language of Thread - Why Sewing Matters and How We Were Taught | by Jo Andrews

Books

The Guardian: White Holes: Inside the Horizon review – Carlo Rovelli turns time on its head | by Kevin Fong

Social Issues

A “safety cell” for those that are "a danger to themselves or others". San Francisco County Jail 3 as to was known in 1996 on the 6th floor of the Hall of Justice. It is now closed. San Francisco, California. Photo: Robert Gumpert 1996

LA Times: L.A. County tries to hire mental health workers, fast | by Jackyn Cosgrive

NY Times: Stabbed. Kicked. Spit On. Violence in American Hospitals Is Out of Control. | Video by Roland Kielman and Ryan MercerText by Helen Ouyang

The Guardian: A prison guard confessed to sexual misconduct. He got a year of paid time off and no charges | by Sam Levin

Mother Jones: How the Gun Industry Targets Kids Using TikTok, Instagram, and Video Games | by Mark Follman

De Los - LA Times: Texas state rep says he has ‘no regrets’ about viral outburst over anti-immigrant bill | by Alejandra Molina

Mission Local: SF to reopen shuttered jail as inmate population rises | by Eleni Balakrishnan

Orion: The Broken Clock - Going from changing with the seasons to changing the seasons themselves | by David Gessner

The Marshall Project: In Harm’s Way - How decades-old decisions to build two California prisons in a dry lakebed and a chaotic climate left 8,000 incarcerated people at risk. | by Susie Cagle; Additional reporting by GEOFF HING - Development by KATIE PARK

NY Times: The Latest Target for California Conservatives? Local School Boards | by Jill Cowan

Cal Matters: From Texas’ border to California: A tale of two cities’ response to migrants arriving unexpectedly | by Justo Robles and Alejandra Reyes-Velarde

Washington Post: Local journalists arrested in Atmore, Alabama, for grand jury story | by Paul Farhi

Division Street

There is never much privacy for rough sleepers. Bush and Market streets. San Francisco, California. Photo: Robert Gumpert 27 October 2015 from the book **“Division Street -** **Dark was the night, cold was the ground*, Homelessness and Community in San Francisco”**

The Guardian: From right to buy to housing crisis: how home ownership killed Britain’s property dream | by Rowan Moore

The Guardian: Afghans who fled Taliban to UK ‘set to be made homeless at Christmas’ | by Mark Townsend

VPM: The last day at Charlottesville's Market Street Park encampment | by Meghin Moore

Jacobin: We Should Look to Vienna for Answers to Our Housing Crisis | by Fran Quigley

Metropolis: This San Francisco Affordable Housing Development Is on a Mission | by Lydia Lee

See more of 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

*‘Dark was the night, cold was the ground’: From the song of the same name written and performed by bluesman Blind Willie Johnson, recorded in 1927.

29 October - 05 November 2023