12 February - 18 February 2024
Misson Street - San Francisco, California. Photo Robert Gumpert 15 February 2024
Photography
Lenscratch: Focus on Aging: Beate Sass: I belong to you and you to me | by Ruth Steinberg
Helga Paris: Buildings and Faces
Art Blart: Exhibition: ‘Helga Paris, Photographer’ at the Akademie der Künste, Berlin | curator: Inka Schube
Art Blart: Exhibition: ‘Daido Moriyama: A Retrospective’ at The Photographers’ Gallery, London | curator: Thyago Nogueira, Instituto Moreira Salles, São Paulo, Brazil
Magnum: The Photographers’ Selection: 2023
BJP: The Desi Boys will show you Kolkata from the streets | by Ravi Ghosh
Lens Culture: Gilded Lilies | Photographs by Tine Poppe
Interview by Sophie Wright
Huck: A Glimpse Inside the World’s Most Secretive Arms Fairs | Text by Isaac Muk, Photography by Nikita Teryoshin
Field of View: The Hindenburg Disaster, Rediscovered | by Patrick Witty
Washington Post: The things we do can come at a heavy cost, even photography | The things we do can come at a heavy cost, even photography Photo by Louie Palu, words Kenneth Dickerman
Creative Boom: Artistic rebel, urban poet: new book celebrates the iconic photography of Saul Leiter | Written By: Tom May
Jerry Uelsmann: Selected Works
Blind: Fabrice Dekoninck Bosnian Memories | by Benoit Dupuis-Tordjeman
Photojournalism News: An important lesson I learnt as a photojournalist | by Mariella Ferrer
Texas Monthly: To Live and Die in Dallas: A Year Inside the City’s Homicide Unit | Photograph by Richard Sharum, words Bill Shapiro
The Guardian: Photojournalist Motaz Azaiza: ‘The ghosts of Gaza follow me everywhere’ | by Thaslima Begum in Doha
Aperture: Rediscovering the Photographs of Ernest Cole talk Tuesday, February 27
Culture, Art and Design
Wooden fence blocking the view of empty lot in the Fisherman’s Wharf area of San Francisco, California. Photo: Robert Gumpert 17 February 2024
NY Times: Lost at Parkland: ‘Peter Was Always My Translator’ | by Amy Qin
Barry Lewis: GULAG - A photographic journey into the darkness of Stalin's Siberian prison camps (Kickstarter page)
Huck: Past and present collide in Steve McQueen and Bianca Stitger’s Occupied City, an experimental documentary about Amsterdam under Nazi occupation. | by Shelley Jones
Hyperallergic: Ben Shahn’s Ever-Relevant Political Art | by Lauren Moya Ford
Dezeen: Why aren't more architects using stone as a building material? | by Any Peacock
Wallpaper: The architects who built Palm Springs: midcentury modernism focus | by Ellie Stathaki
Print: The Daily Heller: Underwater Underground From World War II
Hyperallergic: The Importance of Art in a “Good Death” | by Brianna L. Hernández
The Guardian: Up the Up’ards, down the Down’ards! The Royal Shrovetide Football Game | by Paul Bellsham
Texas Monthly: The Billionaire Bully Who Wants to Turn Texas Into a Christian Theocracy | by Russell Gold
Washington Post: How does Huy Fong sriracha compare to its new rival? We tried both. | by Emily Heil
Five Things Seen and Heard: To the memory of Alexei Navalny | by Martin Colyer
Books
MACK: Shining Lights: Black Women Photographers in 1980s–90s Britain Joy Gregory (ed.)
Photobook Journal: Terri Weifenbach – Cloud Physics | review by Douglas Stockdale
Huck: The Magnum agency photographer talks about his new book covering protests, political crises, and human tragedy in Turkey | Text by Isaac Muk - Photography by Emin Özmen
Dewi Lewis: Burnt House Lane by Michelle Sank with an introduction by Diane Smyth. A kickstarter campaign
Podcast
Fred Ritchin: Photography for a better world
The Food Chain: Detroit’s Urban Farmers
The Food Chain: Rebuilding Turkey’s Food Culture
Points South: Foundations of a Black Town | producer Christian Leus
Washington Post: The broken promises of the NFL’s concussion settlement
Headbanging Headlines:
The Guardian: Bring back Boris voices are growing louder but will a desperate Sunak listen?
Washington Post: Okaloosa, Florida cop fires at unarmed man after acorn falls on car
The Hill: GoFundMe launched to help pay Trump’s legal fees
Other Stuff
Looking north towards “downtown”, 18th Street and Kanas, Potrero Hill District. San Francisco, California. Photo Robert Gumpert 16 February 2024
Washington Monthly: It's Not Just the Border: The Trump-Abbott-Republican Nullification Crisis Is Here | by Garrett Epps
LA Times: Falling EV sales raise worries over California climate plan | by Russ Mitchell
LRB blog: Eyes on Gaza | by Selma Dabbagh
The Conversation: Misinformation: how fact-checking journalism is evolving – and having a real impact on the world | by Beth Daley
LA Times: Opinion: I'm an American doctor who went to Gaza. I saw annihilation, not war | by Irfan Galaria
DarkRading: iOS, Android Malware Steals Faces to Defeat Biometrics With AI Swaps | by Nate Nelson
9to5Mac: Protect against iPhone trojan GoldPickaxe: How-to | by Michael Potuck
Labor
Two construction workers eat their lunch on a job in Union Square. San Francisco, California. Photo: Robert Gumpert 04 January 2017
Aljazeera: Shooting war: Gaza’s visual storytellers under ‘blatant’ attack | by Lorraine Mallinder
The Guardian: ‘It has really gotten out of hand’: wage theft rampant in US construction | by Michael Sainato
Techcrunch: Amazon and SpaceX are quietly trying to demolish national labor law | by Amanda Silberling
Bloomberg: Tesla, VW, Toyota, Nissan, BMW Targets of UAW Auto Union Push | by Josh Eidelson
UAW: Nearly 9,000 UAW Autoworkers Serve Strike Notice at Ford’s Kentucky Truck Plant Over Local Agreement Issues Including Health & Safety and Skilled Trades
The Nation: Michigan Just Became the First State in 6 Decades to Scrap an Infamous Anti-Union Law | by John Nichols
Social Issues - 2024 US Elections
Political posters from the group “Together SF”, one of the groups highlighted in the story: Inside tech billionaires’ push to reshape San Francisco politics: ‘a hostile takeover’ from the Guardian and Mission Local. On a fence hiding a vacant lot in the Fisherman’s Wharf area. San Francisco, California. Photo Robert Gumpert 17 February 2024
The Guardian and Mission Local: Inside tech billionaires’ push to reshape San Francisco politics: ‘a hostile takeover’ | by Ali Winston, with graphics by Will Jarrett, of Mission Local
The Guardian: The US supreme court may turn this election into a constitutional crisis | by Sidney Blumenthal
TPM: Trump Attorneys Gamed Out Which Justices Might Help Them Steal the Election | by Josh Kovensky
Washington Post: Opinion | Hur’s outrageous partisanship. Garland’s stupidity | by Jennifer Rubin
TPM: Fani Willis Endures Disrespect, Racist Tropes And Public Ridicule | by David Kurtz
Washington Post: Trump’s anger at courts, frayed alliances could upend approach to judicial issues | by Josh Dawsey and Marianne LeVine
NY Times: The Political Disaster of the Fani Willis Hearing | by Charles M. Blow
Social Issues
NBC News: Mississippi coroner who buried men without telling their families: ‘I don’t know how to find people’ | by Jon Schuppe and Mike Hixenbaugh
NBC: Texas attorney who poisoned pregnant wife with abortion medication sentenced to 180 days in jail | by Minyvonne Burke
Texas Observer: Jim Crow Still Lingers in Bonham, Civil Rights Lawyers Say | by Josephine Lee
TPM: The Legal Coup - New Documents Reveal How Trump Lawyers Sought ‘Chaos’ to Force SCOTUS, or Whoever Else, to Anoint Trump | by Josh Kovensky
The Appeal: Why Do Americans Think the U.S. Is too “Soft” on Crime? | by Ethan Corey
NPR: Hurricane Idalia shows nature may provide the best shoreline protection | by Greg Allen
ProPublica: She Was Denied an Abortion After Roe Fell. This Is a Year in Her Family’s Life. | by Stacy Kranitz, special to ProPublica, and Kavitha Surana
NY Times: The Addiction Recovery Story We Don’t Hear Enough | by Nicholas Kristof
Division Street
Make-shift tent and closet next to a vacant lot on Pennsylvania, between Mariposa and 18th Street, Potrero Hill. San Francisco, California. Photo Robert Gumpert 16 February 2024
The Guardian and Mission Local: Inside tech billionaires’ push to reshape San Francisco politics: ‘a hostile takeover’ | by Ali Winston, with graphics by Will Jarrett, of Mission Local
LA Times: The many reasons MAGA’s love for San Francisco shouldn’t stop with the Super Bowl | by Erika D. Smith
Seattle Times: A Seattle suburb known for affordability becomes example of U.S. debate on homelessness | by Anna Patrick
Chicago Sun-Times: Housing should be a human right | Kara Young Ponder
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
