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11 August 2020
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 Belarus, Dorothea Lange, Harold Davis, a 120-year-old cat, Kevin Scanlon and inside the Getty Museum Challenge.
- The Guardian has posted images from several sources in Police and Protesters Clash in Minsk, Belarus. And Wired reports Belarus Has Shut Down the Internet after "five-term president Aleksandr Lukashenko had won a sixth term with about 80 percent of the vote."
- The Oakland Museum of California presents some of Dorothea Lange's archive of 40,000 negatives and 6,000 prints online as the Dorothea Lange Digital Archive. It's organized in four sections: The Depression, World War II at Home, Post-War Projects and Early Work/Personal Work. "One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind," she once said.
- In Visiting a Garden of Cars, Harold Davis presents a few images from his pre-pandemic visit to the International Car Forest of the Last Church in Goldfield, Nev.
- In After Discovering a 120-Year-Old Time Capsule, Photographer Develops Two Cyanotypes of Cats, Grace Ebert shows us what photographer Mathieu Stern discovered in his house. Stern documented the story of printing the old glass plate negatives in this 6:16 video:
- Heidi Volpe interviews Kevin Scanlon about his High on Fire and Mike Pike shoot for Revolver magazine. The cover shot was done on film.
- Erin Migdol goes Inside the Senior Communities Taking the Getty Museum Challenge. "For Veranda of Pensacola and other senior living facilities around the world, the Getty Museum Challenge arrived at a time when distraction and levity may have seemed impossible, but were exactly what those most vulnerable to Covid-19 needed to keep their spirits up," she writes.
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