7 Days: 04 December - 10 December 2023
Looking south along the Cabrillo Highway (CA 1) and Pacific coast south of the Devil's Bunker. On the Cabrillo Highway south of Pacifica and the Devil's Slide Tom Lantos Tunnels. Photo Robert Gumpert 06 December 2023
Photography
Howard Greenberg Gallery: Saul Leiter - Centennial
Blind: Mary Ellen Mark's Encounters | by Robert E. Gerhardt
Keith de Ellis Gallery: Simpson Kalisher (1926-2023)
Blind: Unleashing Storms | by Gaia Squarci
Field of View: The Most Photographed War in History | by Patrick Witty
The New Yorker: The Year in New Yorker Photography | by Sharuna Lyon
Lensculture: Announcing 38 Award-Winning Black & White Photographers!
BJP: Alicia Bruce - Profit, power and TV personalities: Photographing the community in conflict with Trump | by Philippa Kelly
Aperture: How Elliott Erwitt Found His Signature Humor and Joy | by Stuart Alexander
Blind: Rediscovering Deborah Turbeville | by Iris Mandret
Culture, Art and Design
Parking lot on Main Street. Half Moon Bay, about 29 miles south of San Francisco. California. Photo Robert Gumpert 02 December 2023
McSweeney’s: Post-dinner interview with a twelve-year-old who sat at the grown-ups’ table for the first time on Thanksgiving | by Nathaniel Brown
Washington Post: The political and demographic divides in kitchen-tool ownership, and more! | by Andrew Van Dam
Hyperallergic: How David Hockney’s Early Experiments Shaped His Iconic Style | by Rhea Nayyar
Hyperallergic: Artist’s Posters of Palestinians Killed by Israeli Strikes Emerge Across US | by Angella d’Avignon
Then There Was Us: Soft-love and tenderness with Charlee Moss | author Jonathan Tomlinson
Dissent: The Dominance of Platform Foods - Pizza, burgers, and tacos are not only delicious, they are essential to how capital shapes our lives. | by Arun Gupta
The Guardian: Revealed: how top pop stars are used to ‘launder the reputation’ of Koch family | by Geoff Dembicki
Other Stuff
A dry cleaners on Irving Street between 8th and 9th Avenues. San Francisco, California. Photo Robert Gumpert 06 December 2023
The Guardian: US police agencies took intelligence directly from IDF, leaked files show | by Jason Wilson
Texas Monthly: The Texas Historical Commission Removed Books on Slavery From Plantation Gift Shops | by Steven Monacelli
Quartz: The shift of manufacturing out of China is shaking up shipping | by Mary Hui
El País: Singapore’s top educationalist: ‘We are reducing homework. Play is part of learning’ | by Elisa Siló
SF Chronicle: As California’s redwoods recover from fire, astonishing fact emerges | by Julie Johnson
Labor
Server, and union member, at Julius' Castle on Telegraphy Hill opened sometime between 1924 and 1928 and was once a landmark eatery. Now only the building remains a landmark, the restaurant closed in 2007
The Nation: The New Labor Militancy of LA’s Hotel Workers | by Sasha Abramsky
Courthouse News Service: UAW says over 1,000 workers at VW plant in Tennessee have signed cards seeking union representation
Labor Notes: Inspired by Strike Wins, 1,000 Volkswagen Workers Sign Union Cards | by Luis Feliz Leon
Civil Eats: Diving—and Dying—for Red Gold: The Human Cost of Honduran Lobster | by Alice Driver
When the Headline in Enough
USA Today: Taylor Swift vs. MAGA? Trump toadies get mad and dumb over Time's new Person of the Year.
The Guardian: Lost in space no more: missing tomato found in space station after eight months
Podcast
Transom: “Reporting Out at the Edge”
A Small Voice: 219 - Leonard Pongo | by Ben Smith
WTF-STOP: #15 Patrick Ward | by Zak Waters
Books
Photobook Journal: Interesting Photobooks of 2023
1854 Photography: These are the most exciting photobooks out this winter
Social Issues
Washington D.C.: 500,00 march in protest to Donald Trump at the Women's March on the Mall. Photo Robert Gumpert 21 January 2017
The Guardian: Texas judge rules woman with non-viable pregnancy can have an abortion | by Susan Rinkunas
The Guardian: Texas attorney general says he will sue doctor who gives abortion to Kate Cox | by Ava Sasani
NPR: Texas Supreme Court pauses ruling allowing pregnant woman to have an abortion
The Guardian: San Francisco faces deadliest year for drug overdoses due to rise of fentanyl | by Erin McCormick
The War Horse: Short Changed: Military Women Face Assault, Harassment, Death. Is Culture to Blame? | by Kristen Davis
Division Street
Devil's Bunker, Cabrillo Highway (CA 1) just south of the Devil's Slide Tom Lantos Tunnels. South of Pacifica, California Photo Robert Gumpert 06 December 2023
SF Chronicle: The invisible population’: How SF is failing homeless families
Searchlight NM: From cars and couches to safe havens for the homeless | by Elise Kaplan
SF Chronicle: S.F. supervisor working to ban ‘dangerous’ landlords in the city | by Laura Waxmann
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