7 Days: 20 November - 26 November 2023
Pastry chef at the Mark Hopkins Hotel. San Francisco, California. Photo: Robert Gumpert 1999
Photography
The Globe and Mail: War keeps changing, the view stays the same | by Corrine Dufka (she was interviewed on A Small Voice)
D C Moore Gallery: Magritte + Warhol by Duane Michals November 16 – December 21, 2023
The Lecia Blog: Byways. The Photographs of Roger Deakins
Lenscratch: Native American Heritage Week: Cara Romero | by Donna Garcia
Lenscratch: Native American Heritage Week: Interview with Jill Ahlberg Yohe | by Donna Garcia
Lenscratch: Native American Heritage Week: Michael Namingha | by Donna Garcia
Aperture: A Screenwriter’s Forgotten Photographs of American Televisions | by Jackson Davidow
The Guardian: ‘It’s always us who pay the price’: displaced by DRC’s endless cycle of war | by Hugh Kinsella Cunningham
NY Times: Harsh Visuals of War Leave Newsrooms Facing Tough Choices | by Michael M. Grynbaum and Katie Robertson
Field of View: This Photograph Demands to Be Seen Graphic photos of dead children will not end war; neither will sanitizing them. | by Patrick Witty
Time: TIME’s Top 100 Photos of 2023
It’s Nice That: Nadezda Nikolova’s camera-less photography is both familiar and out of this world | by Yaya Azariah Clarke
U British Columbia: Re-Developing the work of B.A. Haldane, 19th Century Tsimshian Photographer | by Dr. Mique’l Dangeli, PhD Adjunct Professor of First Nations Studies UNBC
Howard Greenberg Gallery: Play Ball
Blind: “The Black Triangle” of Armet Francis | by Miss Rosen
LFI: Community Lightbox 8/2023
Field of View: The Execution of The Assassin | by Patrick Witty
The Guardian: Merrick Morton - Tales from the hood: LA’s street gang culture | by Sarah Gilbert
i-D: What vintage paparazzi photos teach us about the birth of celebrity culture | by Millen Brown-Ewens
Culture, Art and Design
Tattoos. San Francisco County Jai, San Bruno, California. Photo Robert Gumpert 13 September 2009
Aperture: The Oppositional Energy of Zines | by Jesse Dorris
Aperture: A Feminist Memory Project in Nepal | Interviews by Varun Nayar
The Guardian: That’s not a potato: mystery of Egyptian treasures found buried in grounds of Scottish school | by Dalya Alberge
Washington Post: Greenbelt, future home of the FBI, was planned as a New Deal utopia | by Petula Dvorak
Engadget: Webb telescope images show an unprecedented and 'chaotic' view of the center of our galaxy | by Lawrence Bonk
It’s Nice That: How The Guardian designed its thoughtful new long-form mag | by Liz Gorny
Huck: Last week the Copwatch Network hacked ads across the capital to expose the role of politicians, business people and media figures in the oppression of Palestine.
Print: The Daily Heller: Bob Dylan’s Back Pages | by Steven Heller
Artsy: Rose B. Simpson Harnesses the Power of Community in Life-Sized Clay Sculptures | by Sandra Hale Schulman
Flashbak: Leonardo Da Vinci’s To Do Lists From His Inspired Notebooks - The great artist and visionary recored his idea in notebooks which we can now read
NY Times: Saving Praise Houses Before Their African Lineage Is Forgotten | by Patricia Leigh Brown
LA Times: The 27 best movie theaters in L.A. | by CARLOS AGUILAR, MATT BRENNAN, TRACY BROWN, JUSTIN CHANG, MARY MCNAMARA, MARK OLSEN, MICHAEL ORDOÑA, JOSHUA ROTHKOPF, JOSH ROTTENBERG, KATIE WALSH, GLENN WHIPP, JEN YAMATO, AMY NICHOLSON
El País: Thanksgiving and Native Americans: a complicated history | by Alonso Martínez
The Guardian: Spurs’ Gregg Popovich takes mic to chastise fans for booing Kawhi Leonard
LA Times: How Asian-language tattoos have helped me feel at home in my own skin | by Frank Shyong
The Guardian: Political and documentary photography posters from the 1970s | by Sarah Gilbert
Other Stuff
Committee to Protect Journalist: Journalist casualties in the Israel-Gaza war
Civil Eats: The Long Reach of the Walmart-Walton Empire
NY Times: The Secret to Unlocking One of the Universe’s Greatest Mysteries | by Carlo Rovelli
The Guardian: Billionaires are lining up to fund Donald Trump’s anti-democratic agenda | by Robert Reich
Dissent: Ending the Coalfield-to-Prison Pipeline | by Billy Fleming and AL McCullough
Labor
Committee to Protect Journalist: Journalist casualties in the Israel-Gaza war
NY Times: California workers died of silicosis despite years of warnings | by Emily Alpert Reyes, Cindy Carcamo
NPR: Glitches are delaying the rescue of 40 workers trapped in India tunnel collapse
The Nation: The Long, Wild, Bloody History of the Hollywood Strike | by Chris Randle
LA Times: California prisoners could get higher wages under new plan — but still less than $1 an hour
Courthouse News Service: Convicted pimp ordered to repay former prostitute her earnings | by Edvard Petterson
Stansbury Forum: Harry Bridges and the ILWU – Then and Now | by Peter Olney
Headbanging Headlines:
The Guardian: Twelve billionaires’ climate emissions outpollute 2.1m homes, analysis finds
The Guardian: ‘I cannot stress too much about it’: Monaco yacht buyers shrug off climate concerns
LA Times: California prisoners could get higher wages under new plan — but still less than $1 an hour
Podcast
Minneapolis Institute of Art: In Our Hands: Native Photography, 1890 to Now, Always Present
NY Times: The Wisdom of Living in the Present, According to My 107-Year-Old Best Friend | a short film by Raquel Sancinetti
BBC Sounds: Taking Issue with Shakespeare
Portside: Doctor My Eyes | Jackson Brown - A stunning rendition of the classic Doctor My Eyes brings together two musicians from the 1972 original with 11 amazing musicians from around the globe
Books
Aperture: 31 Photobooks for Everyone on Your Holiday Gift List
AI
16th near Owens. Image on the fence on the building site for coming UC medical building. San Francisco, CA Photos Robert Gumpert 21 November 2023
Reuters: Exclusive: OpenAI researchers warned board of AI breakthrough ahead of CEO ouster, sources say | by Anna Tong, Jeffrey Dastin and Krystal Hu
NY Times: The Unsettling Lesson of the OpenAI Mess | by Ezra Klein
The Guardian: OpenAI ‘was working on advanced model so powerful it alarmed staff’ | by Dan Milmo
El País: OpenAI researchers warned of breakthrough that threatens humanity before Altman’s dismissal | by Miguel Jimémez
Washington Post: OpenAI and X: Promises of populist technology, shaped by a single man | by Drew Harwell
Wired: Sam Altman’s Second Coming Sparks New Fears of the AI Apocalypse | by Peter Guest, Morgan Meaker
404 Media: OpenAI Announces Sam Altman Is Returning as CEO With a 'New Board’ | by Jason Koehler
NY Times: A.I. Belongs to the Capitalists Now | by Kevin Roose
Blind: Over 100 Photographers Unite Against AI at World Press Photo | by Michaël Naulin
Social Issues
“hello BABY! it's a BOY". After the storefront party, 20th Street, between Missouri and Conn. San Francisco, CA. 23 November 2023
SF Chronicle: The not-so-secret history of trans people in California | by Robin Buller
NY Times: Opinion - Addiction Ravaged My Family and Tribe. I’m Fighting to Get Them Back
The Guardian: ‘We’re going to see people dying on the streets’: homeless refugee crisis grips Liverpool | by Sammy Gecsoyler
TPM: Appeals Court Hobbles The Voting Rights Act In New Decision | by Kate Riga
Middle East Eye: Why Palestinian journalists aren't valued by their western colleagues | by Azad Essa
Rolling Stone: I’m Serving Life in Prison. It’s a Slow-Motion Death Sentence | by Tariq Maqbool
Division Street
Sidewalk cooking - meatballs with cheese for 8 - at an encampment on 13th Street, at Folsom. San Francisco, California. Photo: Robert Gumpert 1 March 2022
The Guardian: ‘I was like 500th on the list’: life inside Britain’s affordable housing crisis | by Jessica Murray
NY Times: Here’s How Houston Is Fighting Homelessness — and Winning | by Nicholas Kristof
LA Times: Cal Poly Humboldt students who live in vehicles are ordered off campus | by Debbie Truing; photos Wally Skalij
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