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Around The Horn
24 August 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 Builder Levy, Aerosol Earth, an art consultant dishes, Paris liberated and Ivan Weiss.
- In Striving for Justice and Equality With a Camera on New York's Streets, James Estrin profiles Builder Levy, a teacher who photographed the community he knew "to counter media depictions he saw as problematic." Levy tells Estrin, "I looked at my photographs as a counter to the racist depictions the mass media had of the very students I was teaching."
- In Just Another Day on Aerosol Earth, NASA explains, "Even if the air looks clear, it is nearly certain that you will inhale millions of solid particles and liquid droplets. These ubiquitous specks of matter are known as aerosols and they can be found in the air over oceans, deserts, mountains, forests, ice and every ecosystem in between." That what must be why we choking around here lately.
- David Walker asks Julie Kinzelman How a Corporate Art Consultant Buys Photographic Prints. "We spend a lot of time researching, doing studio visits, attending art fairs, attending gallery openings, to build on [knowing] who the artists are out there, who is experimenting in innovative ways, as well as styles and genres that exist over time," she says. Instagram? Uh, no. This is about prints.
- When Paris Was Liberated peeks at Left Bank: Art, Passion, and the Rebirth of Paris, 1940-50, a new book by Agnès Poirier on the aftermath of World War II illustrated with Getty Images photos. Simone de Beauvoir, Jean Paul-Sartre, Richard Wright, Norman Mailer, Pablo Picasso, Alexander Calder, Miles Davis and Juliette Greco all returned to the liberated city.
- Portrait photographer Ivan Weiss tells Charlotte Thompson-Morley The Human Face Is Endlessly Fascinating. "Very few people are truly relaxed in front of a camera and it is my job to get people to the stage where they can just be themselves," he says.
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