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Around The Horn
25 March 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 the week in photos, looking up, TOP's income, commercial photographers' incomes and Gordon Moore.
- Associated Press photo editor Eloy Martin in Madrid presents The Week in Photos from protests in France following the President Macron's unpopular plan to raise retirement age from 62 to 64 to the start of Ramadan for millions of Muslims to the aftermath of Tropical Cyclone Freddy in Malawi.
- When Four Photographers Looked Up, This Is What They Saw (gift link), Jolie Ruben and Amanda Webster report. The four are Balarama Heller, Stella Blackmon, Ian C. Bates and Ali Cherkis. And they all saw different things.
- In How Is TOP Doing? Mike Johnston reports, "The unadorned reality is that TOP [The Online Photographer] is in the process of failing, following the same larger trends that forced Olympus to sell its camera division and DPReview to shut down, etc., etc." He does the numbers. And in a guest post on the site, Luke Smith wonders where photographers will go for the kind of comparison test shots he used to shoot for Imaging Resource.
- Rob Haggert continues his series Search Photographers, How Much Do You Make? with five more reports.
- We note the passing of Gordon Moore at the age of 94. Moore and Robert Noyce founded Intel in July 1968. With his wife Betty, he established the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, which has donated over $5.1 billion to charitable causes since 2000. He famously forecast in 1965 that the number of transistors on an integrated circuit would double every year, a prediction that came to be known as Moore's Law. "All I was trying to do was get that message across, that by putting more and more stuff on a chip we were going to make all electronics cheaper," he said. Moore is survived by his wife of 72 years, sons Kenneth and Steven and four grandchildren. In Gordon Moore: He Stood Alone Among Tech Titans, Walden Kirsch speaks with three people whose lives were significantly touched by Moore at Intel.
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