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Around The Horn
11 May 2019
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 Tiananmen Square, the school photo industry, that Salvini photobomb, the invention of color photography, Susan Wright, a Fujifilm lens kit and photographing Chernobyl.
- In Thirty Years on, the Tiananmen Square Image That Shocked the World, photographer Jeff Widener tells the story about "how a series of mishaps meant it was almost the picture that got away." He was out of film to start with.
- In The School Photo Industry Is a Master Class in Drama, David Gauvey Herbert reports on Lifetouch, "the school picture behemoth that photographs roughly half of America's 50 million schoolchildren every fall," and Chris Wunder's #1 Original School & Sports Photography Boot Camp that teaches photographers how to compete with them.
- Two 19-year-olds make a political statement in Same-Sex Selfie Kiss Kickstarts Matteo Salvini Photobomb Protest. Salvini invited supporters to take selfies after a meeting and the two "didn't think twice about it." Now the image has gone viral.
- Roger Cicala explains How Potatoes and Gelatin Created Color Photography.
- Ratha Tep is Retracing Truman Capote's Moment in the Mediterranean Sun with some gorgeous images by Susan Wright. Particularly love the one of Isola Bella, Capote's favorite beach.
- Mike Johnston proposes A Practical Fujifilm Lens Kit that costs about $1,300, not much more than the single 40mm dSLR lens he cites in both total weight and cost. Which prompts him to challenge the lensmakers to "come up with the smallest, lightest lenses for the new FFM category."
- In Photographing Chernobyl, Andrew Molitor hunted down more images of the place to perform a little cultural archeology.
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