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16 May 2018
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at Mississippi's Freedom Riders, the Kilauea volcano, Mount St. Helens, the Sigma 16mm f1.4 and Sony.
- In 50 Years After Their Mug Shots, Portraits of Mississippi's Freedom Riders, Maurice Berger explores journalist and photographer Eric Etheridge's visual and oral histories of the Freedom Riders of the 1960s. Etheridge has published the series as Breach of Peace: Portraits of the 1961 Mississippi Freedom Riders. "By pairing mug shots with contemporary portraits -- and providing stories about individual Freedom Riders -- Etheridge undoes some of the psychic and social damage perpetrated by these symbols of police malfeasance," Berger writes.
- Spectacular Images of the Recent Eruptions in Hawaii compiles 23 photos of Kilauea volcano's ongoing eruption.
- And on the same topic, Mount St. Helens Eruption: Never-Before-Published Photos collects photographer Peggy Short-Nottage's rediscovered slides shot from the cockpit of a Cessna 150, 10,000 feet in the air.
- Robin Wong takes that Sigma 16mm out in the sunlight in Second Take -- the Sigma 16mm f1.4 in the Field. "I continued to be amazed by the flare control, which is better than many Panasonic and Olympus lenses," he writes.
- Both DPReview's Richard Butler and Luminous Landscape's Kevin Raber explain why they've been writing so much about Sony lately.
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