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Around The Horn
6 December 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 Mark Rammers, Paul Kitagak, Rob Kessler, color confusion, the $1,000 camera, documenting dreams, photographing people, 75 photos from the Pilara Foundation and the Fujifilm Instax Mini Link printer.
- In The Intricate Details of Daily Life in Saint Louis, Senegal, Dutch photographer Mark Rammers visits the island whose light is filtered by the dust of the Sahara desert.
- Photographer Paul Kitagaki's new book, Behind Barbed Wire: The Search for Japanese Americans Incarcerated During World War II, took 14 years to research. He discusses the project on KALW's Your Call.
- Grace Ebert presents Colored Micrographs Magnify Pollen Seeds, Plant Cells and Leaf Structures photographed by Rob Kessler using scanning electron microscopy and a mix of microscopic, scientific, digital and manual processes.
- Jim Kasson describes the Roles of Camera and Raw Developer in Determining Color, a much misunderstood relationship. It's particularly well done, bringing clarity to the confusion. Not to be missed.
- In The $1,000 Camera Buying Dilemma, Thom Hogan considers what a grand will get you these days. "You can buy everything from the superzoom to end all superzooms to a current full frame camera, but with no lens," he observes.
- A Photographer's Take on Analog Documentation in a Digital World is a Brief But Spectacular piece on the PBS NewsHour that features Uldus Bakhtiozina. She explains, "I'm not a documentary photographer in the common sense, but I am a documentary photographer in a different sense. I document dreams."
- In Photographing People, Andrew Molitor considers the conflicting desires of photographers and unwilling subjects in public after a stranger asks him to delete a photo which included him.
- In Photographers Looking at Photographs 75 artists from the Pilara Foundation collection write about works they have selected from the collection. They were asked to draw inspiration from John Szarkowski's seminal book Looking at Photographs: 100 Pictures from the Collection of the Museum of Modern Art (1973).
- The Kid Should See This recommends the $90 Fujifilm Instax Mini Link smartphone printer for kids. "It's highly rated, the hardware and software makes it fun for the kids to use, the Instax Mini Instant Film has a vintage feel but I have editing control in the app and most importantly, it works with our iPhones and any photos we've already taken."
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