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Around The Horn
25 February 2023
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 Tina Barney, the Voigtlander Nokton 58mm, AI-generated art and a winter freeze.
- In Tina Barney: The Photographer's Origin Story (gift link), Hilarie Sheets explores the career of the artist with a show at Kasmin and a new book of rediscovered photographs, both called The Beginning. "If Barney's pictures of cloistered privilege in a largely white world seem out of step with the current social-political tenor of the art world, they continue to fascinate, rather like watching The Crown or Succession."
- Kirk Tuck presents a second slide show from his recent walk through Austin with a Voigtlander Nokton 58mm f1.4 SL II. It extends his previous appreciation of the optic.
- In Photographs Are Beautiful Because They're True, Mike Johnston reflects on the Instagram photographer who confessed his portraits were AI generated (an ironic demonstration in itself, we think, of artificial intelligence). "Photography is moving farther and farther away from the era in which the aim was to accurately report what was in front of the camera and increasingly occupying territory that was previously the domain of art," he writes. "Mostly bad art, unfortunately."
- A Rare Winter Freeze hit California yesterday. "Parts of the Los Angeles area were under their first blizzard warning since 1989, ice swirled around the iconic Hollywood sign and further north, Bay area residents saw flurries that frosted beaches and vineyards in white." But, you know, neither rain, nor snow, etc. keeps us from publishing here.
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