14 August - 20 August 2023
Morning on Potrero Avenue between Alameda and Division Street. 30 July 2023. Photo Robert Gumpert
Photography
Blind: African American Life by Rufus Holsinger | by Miss Rosen
Creative Boom: Giving homelessness a voice: Marc Davenant on embedding humanity in his Outsiders project | by Olivia Atkins
Conscientious: Kazumichi, Hiromichi: Daidō | by Jörg M. Colberg
UNP: Who were we without a photography? Or captions are needed | by Grant Scott
Mírame y sé color: Jill Freedman
BJP: Nick Hedges on Shelter, Camerawork, and photo democracy | by Diane Smyth
The Guardian: Australia’s National Photographic Portrait prize 2023
The Guardian: International Portrait Photographer of the Year 2023
Blind: Police guitarist Andy Summers unearths hypnotic photographs that evoke the poetic majesty of music. | by Miss Rosen
Aperture: n his videos and multimedia works about Vietnam, Tuan Andrew Nguyen shows how large-scale events reverberate through interpersonal stories. | by Mimi Wong
Washington Post: Photographer Morgan Ashcom salvaged a disaster and made something exquisite from it | by Kenneth Dickerman
LFI: Shelby Lee Adams - From the Heads of the Hollers
Float: Home is Where
UNP: Forgotten Photographers Are The Key to Contemporary Success | by Grant Scott
Chavez Photo: Photographs from around the world
The New Yorker - Photo Booth: Unearthing the History of Anaheim - William Camargo | by Geraldo Cadava
Aperture: Toyo Miyatake’s Indelible Record of Life inside the Manzanar Internment Camp | Ken Chen
Huck: The Black Seaweed Farmer Growing a New Life on the Scottish Isles | Text by Alex King - Photography by Raphael Rychetsky
Coffee and Donuts Publications: Tigers in the Pit: The Pacific Exchange. Photos and interviews Robert Gumpert
Culture, Art and Design
The Big Blue Ox at "Trees of Mystery" on Highway 101. Klamath, CA. 20 October 2012 Photo Robert Gumpert
Lens Culture: Another America — AI-Generated Photos from the 1940s and 50s | AI-generated images by Phillip Toledano - Interview by Jim Casper
JSTOR Daily: Exposing the Sexual Hypocrisy of European Colonists | by Livia Gershon
McSweeney’s: Dangerous children’s picture books that could be lucking in your home | by Shanna Walsh
The Guardian: ‘They thought they were immortal’: the rise and fall of San Francisco’s 60s music scene | by Charles Bramesco
Art in America: Kehinde Wiley’s New Work Underscores the Pitfalls of His Signature Approach: Swapping Black Figures into European Compositions | by Harley Wong
Print: The Daily Heller: Everyday Handmade Signs From Mexico City
Print: Bryan Yonki’s New Book is a Love Letter to the Hand-Painted Signs of Los Angeles | by Charlotte Beach
The Art Newspaper: Officials from three countries have called on Denver Art Museum to return eight artefacts in its collection | by Benjamin Sutton
Mission Local: A Cultural Mission & La Familia Santana | by Andrew Gilbert
Aeon: Wittgenstein in the classroom - The philosopher understood that learning – of a concept, of ourselves, of each other – is the undertaking of a whole life | by Calum Jacobs edited by Nigel Warburton
The Guardian: ‘Our own little congregation’: the people of London’s soon-to-close Smithfield market | by Tom Ambrose Photographs by Jill Mead
Other Stuff
Fishing on the Embarcadero just north of the SF Bay Bridge. 19 August 2023. San Francisco, California. Photo: Robert Gumpert
NPR: Kansas editor says paper investigated police chief prior to newsroom raid | by Danielle Kaye, David Folkenflik
Scientific American: Neuroscientists Re-create Pink Floyd Song from Listeners’ Brain Activity | by Lucy Tu
Print: News From a Changing Planet: The Atomic Age | by Tatiana Schlossberg
El País: Lula savors popularity rise, with 60% approval as president of Brazil | by Naiara Galarraga Gortázar
SF Chronicle: ‘The recovery is absolutely starting’: Why one contrarian office investor is buying in downtown S.F. | J.K. Dineen
Japan Times: WHO holds first traditional medicine summit
DW: Spain Socialists win speaker role with Catalan parties' help
DW: Japan's tech industry needs Africa's critical minerals
Dawn: Pakistan’s Afghanistan policy | by Ashraf Jehangir Qazi
The Guardian: George Soros foundation’s retreat from Europe could ‘turn off the lights’ for human rights | by Philip Otermann
Labor
1981: Dyer, New York City Photo: Robert Gumpert
The Guardian: Los Angeles: hotel workers’ strike ignites backlash among academics | by Mary Yang
The Guardian: West Virginia - A renewable energy battery plant will rise in US where a steel mill once stood | by Dharna Noor
Hyperallergic: Art Institute of Chicago Workers Ratify Union Contract | by Rhea Nayyar
LA Times: Climate change causes life-threatening heat for California farmworkers | by Paloma Esquivel
JSTOR Daily: Japanese American immigrant wives in the American West attempted to improve their living conditions through sex work. | by H.M.A. Leow
El País: Virtual factories: Manufacturers use digital twins in the quest for a new industrial revolution | Helen Massy-Beresford
Hollywood Reporter: Hollywood Crew Are “Forgotten Casualties” in Strike, MPTF Chief Says in Call for Financial Aid | by Kirsten Chuba
Headbanging Headlines:
CNET: Meet LG's StanbyMe Go, the Portable Touchscreen TV That's Also a Suitcase
Podcast
Documentary Storytellers: Natalie Keyssar - Documentary Photographer | interviewed by Chris King
California Sun: Margot Bushel explains homelessness in California
BBC The Food Chain: Banh mi: A sandwich with a story
Ben Smith’s A Small Voice: 211 - Yelena Yemchuk
YouTube: La Doña - Paloma No Vuelve Amar (Official Video)
NPR: After six decades, blues legend Bobby Rush isn't slowing down | by Noah Caldwell, Tinbete Ermyas, Mary Louise Kelly
Books
Creative Boom: New photo book looks at how Soviet playgrounds bred communism, cosmology and culture | by Olivia Atkins
JSTOR Daily: Los Angeles, Lions, and Looking for Happiness Well-researched stories from Aeon, The New Yorker, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
RRB Photobooks: David Hurn - Photographs 1955-2022
Hyperallergic: An Art Thief’s Tale of Love and Seduction - Stéphane Breitwieser stole several billion dollars worth of art from more than 150 museums before he was caught in 2001. | by Erin L. Thompson
Social Issues
The basic three forms of shelter for the unhoused: An RV, tent, and blanket. On Hampshire Street near 17th. 08 August 2023 Photo Robert Gumpert
The Guardian: Revealed: neo-Nazi active club counts several of US military as members | by Ali Winston
Hyperallergic: Israeli Scholars and Artists Call Occupation of Palestine “Apartheid” | by Maya Pontone
LA Times: Birth rate up in Japan ‘miracle town’ amid population crisis | by Stephanie Yang
El País: The Underground Railroad of the south: The unknown story of the slaves who fled to Mexico | by Ikea Seisdedos
Tortoise: Exclusive: suicides linked to domestic abuse come under increasing scrutiny | by Louise Tickle
Washington Post: Americans say the political system is broken. These forces help explain why | by Dan Balz and Clara Ence Morse
NPR: USC Annenberg study shows Hollywood movies still lack diversity | by Chloe Veltman
Mission Local: SF jail health officials say they need more staff—not more money | by Annika Hom
Washington Post: West Virginia University plans to cut foreign languages and other programs | by Nick Anderson
Aeon: The work of John Rawls shows that liberal values of equality and freedom are fundamentally incompatible with capitalism | by Colin Bradley, Edited by Nigel Warburton
Division Street
Robbie Lebon, 45 and homeless for about 5 years. Division Street east of 9th and San Bruno. 7 October 2021 Photo: Robert Gumpert
48 Hills: ‘The system is broken’ - A photographer working with homeless people reflects on the utter failure of the city's sweeps and housing policy. | by Robert Gumpert
48 Hills: The city could buy a vacant building for half the price of building new affordable housing | Tim Readman
LA Times: Walker, heart monitor, docs trashed: Homeless people sue cities | by Cari Spencer
SF Chronicle: St. James Infirmary is shutting its doors, leaving key programs to help trans homeless people in jeopardy at a time when services have never been more in demand | by Nuala Bishari
Scoop: Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need
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