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14 October 2022
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 Anastasia Taylor-Lind, Eadweard Muybridg, your working style, monochrome resources, shadow noise, David Hockney and color-blind glasses.
- The Guardian has published Photographs From a Country in Conflict by photojournalist Anastasia Taylor-Lind made during her time in Ukraine between 2014 and June of this year. They are being exhibited at the Imperial War Museum North through Jan. 2, 2023.
- Benjamin Schneider reports one of the nine surviving copies of Eadweard Muybridge's 1878 Panorama of San Francisco is on display at the California Society of Pioneers. The 19-foot-long work, consisting of 13 glass-printed panels, provides an astonishingly clear, 360 degree look at pre-earthquake San Francisco. The slow film Muybridge used required exposures so long that the streets look deserted.
- Mike Johnston discusses The Three Main Aspects of Your Working Style, namely results, operability and workflow (although he admits in the comments financial cost would be a fourth). He's also offering his Sigma DP2 for sale.
- Dahlia Ambrose lists a few Resources on Monochrome Photography. Not black-and-white photography, but single-tone color photography to clarify.
- Jim Kasson takes on Hasselblad X2D, GFX 100S Shadow Noise, Visuals with tests of his own after pointing out the flaws he's noticed in DPReview's studio scene shots. He doesn't find a significant difference between the two cameras.
- Harriet Sherwood reports David Hockney Painting of Mediterranean Sunrise Sells for £21M. "Hockney, 85, painted Early Morning, Sainte-Maxime from a photograph he took while staying at the home of the film director Tony Richardson," she writes. Ah yes, the camera did it.
- Dorian Batycka reports The Dallas Museum of Art Is Offering High-Tech Glasses So Color-Blind Viewers Can See Art in Vivid Color. The glasses, which can be reserved for 1.5 hour visits are provided by EnChroma.
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