18 December 2024
The Photos
Human beings are so passé. An ad for AI at 5th and Harrison. San Francisco, California. Photo: Robert Gumpert 10 December 2024
Unhoused and sleeping rough after an overnight rain on the San Francisco Embarcadero. Photo: Robert Gumpert 07 December 2024
Wheat pasting on Clement Street, part of a narrative wall. San Francisco, California. Photo: Robert Gumpert 15 December 2024
Clement Street store display. San Francisco, California. Photo: Robert Gumpert 15 December 2024
Wheat pasted wall, 6th and Clement. San Francisco, California. Photo: Robert Gumpert 15 December 2024
The Reads
Photography
“Ruins are not the past, but the future”: ‘Ruins’ exhibition of celebrated photographer Josef Koudelka opens in Prague | Radio Prague International
A Complete Guide to Photobooks to Buy for Christmas | Blind
Matt Black’s American Artifacts | Matt Black/Magnum (Includes a video)
At Autograph, an exhibition capturing the 1970s spirit of a flourishing Lagos | BJP/EMMA RUSSELL
246 - The Year In Review 2024 | A Small Voice: Conversations With Photographers
Arturo Soto: Border Documents | Right Eye Dominant
Culture
Racing’s Deadliest Day - How the 1955 Le Mans disaster changed motorsport forever | Darrell Hartman/ESSES
Decolonizing Design: Ukraine’s Fight for Visual Identity | El. Stern/Print
Society
Utilities build flow batteries big enough to oust coal, gas power plants | Nicolás Rivero and Emily Wright - Photos by Noriko Hayashi for The Washington Post
The Daily Heller: They All Came to Look for America | Print
Apocalypse When? - The fantasy of redemption in disaster films | Nicholas Russell/Orion
“Division Street” – Order from Dewi Lewis: Orders: U.S.A – Britain - Canada