7 Days: 01 January - 07 January 2024
A “Mike’s Liberty Garden”, along the Calera Creek path in Pacific, was started by Pacifica resident Mike Mooney in response to the terrorist attacks on 9/11. He has maintained it ever since. As time passed more plots have appeared in tribute to loved ones. Pacifica, California. Photo Robert Gumpert 1 January 2024
Photography
SABC News: Legendary photographer Dr Peter Magubane passes away | by Hasina Gori
NY Times: Peter Magubane, 91, Who Fought Apartheid With His Camera, Is Dead | by Alan Cowell
Catchlight: 2023 in Pictures
Pulitzer Center: 2023 Year in Photos
Washington Post: The war in Gaza through a photographer’s eyes | by Loay Ayyoub
Blind: Documenting the UK Reggae Scene in the 1980s & 90s | by Miss Rosen
Lenscratch: The 2023 Lenscratch Staff Favorite Things | by Aline Smithson
National Portrait Gallery: Prize winners Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize 2023
Blind: Saving Laura Rubin | by Elyssa Goodman
Interviews with Extraordinary People: From The Warhol Circle to Rural Mexico: An Interview with Photographer Laura Rubin
BJP: An-My Lê’s war and peace | by Ravi Ghosh
Aperture: Sam Contis Asks What It Means to Move through the Landscape | by Daisy Hildyard
Elaine Ling Photography: Portfolios (Florida, Nomadic Mongolia, and others)
It’s Nice That: Chris Hoare photographs the fissure between Bristol’s centre and its forgotten fringes | by Olivia Hingley
Civil Rights Institute of Inland Southern California: Working Coachella: Images of the farmworker community of the Coachella Valley Photographs by David Bacon - Exhibit opening 11 January
Field of View: The Final, Decisive Moment - A partial photographic history of executions. | by Patrick Witty
Leica-camera Blog: Gruzja - Polish photojournalist Tytus Grodzicki AnOther: Jason Koxvold’s - These Before and After Photos Show the Effects of War on Soldiers | by Finn Blythe
Dazed: 10 photography exhibitions you can’t miss in 2024 | text Alex Merola
BBC: 'I can remember photographing Kylie but not what I did this morning’ | by Vanessa Pearce. Photos: Jason Scott Tilley
Culture, Art and Design
The Giro: Why New Year’s Day was no holiday for Black people during slavery | by Megan Sims
She Curates: Helen Downie - Unskilledworker | interviewed by Mollie E Barnes
Print: Jessica Brilli’s Paintings Explore Nostalgia by Reimagining Found Photographs | by Charlotte Beach
Hyperallergic: Tenement Museum Opens First Exhibition About Black New Yorkers | by Elaine Velie
The Guardian: Cleveland in the Super Bowl and Gabby Douglas gold: our bold sports predictions for 2024 | by Gabriel Baumgaertner, Tumaini Carayol, Oliver Connolly, Bryan Armen Graham, Andrew Lawrence, Nicholas Levine and Jacob Uitti
She Curates: Rowena Harris | interviewed by Mollie E Barnes
Print: Volker Hermes Remixes History with Tongue-in-Cheek Photo Collage Portraits | by Charlotte Beach
Colossal: Marvel at Tomohiro Okazaki’s Feature-Length Montage of Matches Performing Optical Tricks | by Kate Mothes
Print: Twelve Creative Voices to Follow in 2024
The Bluemoment: Dalston rhapsodies | by Richard Williams
A “Mike’s Liberty Garden”, along the Calera Creek path in Pacific, was started by Pacifica resident Mike Mooney in response to the terrorist attacks on 9/11. He has maintained it ever since. As time passed more plots have appeared in tribute to loved ones. Pacifica, California. Photo Robert Gumpert 1 January 2024
Folk Art Museum: Walls Can Speak: Sites, Memorials, and Social Justice
The Decorative Arts Trust: Memory Vessels: Folk Art With a Compelling International Origin | by John-Duane Kingsley
Incorrect: Securing The Shadow: Posthumous Portraiture In America | by Stacy C. Hollander
Other Stuff
Warning of unstable ground. Devil's Slide Trail on the old section of Highway 1. With weather changes and an inherently unstable hillside a tunnel was built after years of slides would regularly close the road causing massive delays, sometimes taking weeks to clear. South of Pacifica Photo Robert Gumpert 29 December 2023
Mother Jones: Why Is the Colorado River Running Dry? | by Scott Barrier
TNR: Fox News has never been more nakedly partisan. Can Biden fend off the network as he battles Trump for reelection? | by Nina Burleigh
Washington Post: 9 ways to identify ultra-processed foods | by Anahad O’Connor
Washington Post: Opinion - These politicians denied democracy on Jan. 6. Now, they want your vote | by Steve Brodner
ABC27: Lawsuit seeks to remove Scott Perry from Pennsylvania ballot using 14th amendment | by George Stockburger
Control AI: Deepfake technology is out of control
Salon: Fear of MAGA "backlash" is no reason to let Donald Trump make an illegal run for president | by Amanda Marcotte
The Guardian: Big five oil companies to reward shareholders with record payouts | by Jillian Ambrose
The Guardian: What links Rishi Sunak, Javier Milei and Donald Trump? The shadowy network behind their policies | George Monbiot
Labor
Striking Greyhound worker and son at a Long Beach, CA. rally for several striking unions. Photo Robert Gumpert 1983
ProPublica: A Train Took His Legs. KCS Railway Put the Blame on Him. | by Jessica Lussenhop and Topher Sanders
PetaPixel: Court Docs Reveal Midjourney Wanted to Copy the Style of These Photographers | by Matt Growcoot
Hyperallergic: Database of Artists Used to Train AI Leaks to the Public | Maya Pontone
Dazed: Here are all the artists Midjourney allegedly uses to train its AI | by Thom Waite
U.S. Press Freedom Tracker: Three years on, little justice for press assaulted on Jan. 6 | by Kirstin McCudden from Freedom of the Press Foundation
Civil Eats: Our Best Food and Farm Labor Reporting of 2023
Against the Current: “Talking Socialism” on the Job | by Garrett Brown
LA Times: Do people want to return to office? Most say they do | by Danna Maxwell
Business Insider: Meet your new landlord: Google | by James Rodriguez
Headbanging Headlines:
Fortune: Iowa governor says it’s ‘not sustainable’ to give $40 per month to kids from low-income families for food
The Guardian: US hedge fund manager Bill Ackman posts 4,000-word screed decrying ‘racism against white people’ after Gay’s departure
AP News: The Supreme Court is allowing Idaho to enforce its strict abortion ban, even in medical emergencies
Podcast
BBC Sounds - The Documentary: The Vietnam War soundtrack | Beatriz De La Pava
WTF-Stop: #17 Ed Kashi
BBC - From Our Own Correspondent: Twenty years of change in China and more
A Small Voice - Conversations with Photographers: 221 - Richard Kalvar
Print: Revision Path: Matai Parr
Books
MACK: This Train - Justine Kurland
GOST: The Man I Left Behind - Larry Towell
MACK: I carry Her photo with Me - Lindokuhle Sobekwa
Dewi Lewis: The Beginnings of Eternity - Paddy Summerfield
Colossal: A Reissued Book Reveals Hundreds of Photos from Frida Kahlo’s Personal Collection | by Grace Ebert
Social Issues
ED nurse helps a patient. Highland Emergency ED, Oakland, California. Photo Robert Gumpert 2000
The Guardian: ‘Stakes are really high’: misinformation researcher changes tack for 2024 US election | by Rachel Leingang
SF Chronicle: Can AI solve San Francisco’s fentanyl crisis? Here’s what the chatbots say to do | by Gil Duran
PetaPixel: Cameras, Content Authenticity, and the Evolving Fight Against AI Images | by Jaron Schneider
The Guardian: Transatlantic slavery continued for years after 1867, historian finds | by Dalya Alberge
Philadelphia Inquirer: Measles in Philadelphia: Six cases confirmed | by Abraham Gutman
NY Times: How a Drag Queen Event That Never Happened Forced a Library to Shut Down | by John Leland
Division Street
A woman living in the Columbus Ave apartment house in San Francisco’s Chinatown. She had lived there for 50 years and was facing eviction so City College could build a new downtown campus. With the help of the Asian Law Caucus and others residential tenants pooled a total $210,000 in equity to buy into the property alongside $300,000 from the Asian Law Caucus to occupy the ground floor commercial space. The remainder of the $7.6 million total project cost came via loans from numerous sources, including The City. Photo Robert Gumpert 1999 More at SFGATE
LA Times: How problems at two of Skid Row’s largest landlords could make L.A.'s homelessness crisis worse | by Liam Dillon, Doug Smith
Chicago Sun-Times: When college students have no home, it’s up to their schools to step up | by Cheyenne Garcia
The Guardian: Americans living in their cars are finding refuge in ‘safe parking lots’ | by Rick Paulas
LV Review Journal: Wall Street-backed company buys 264 Las Vegas homes for $98M in a day | by Patrick Blennerhassett and Jimmy Romo
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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