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Around The Horn
12 April 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 Willy Spiller, Mark Rammers, Adrift, manual focus lenses, gifts, Smithsonian Open Access and restaurant policy (plus a few more).
- In Soul Train: An Eight-Year Ride on the New York Subway, Mee-Lai Stone features Swiss photographer Willy Spiller's images of the "great human menagerie" from 1977.
- In A Study of Regret and the Willingness to Move Forward, Devid Gualandris showcases the first chapter of Dutch photographer Mark Rammers's all over again, his latest photographic project.
- Tracking A Sad Cargo, the Associated Press features a few images from Adrift. "For nearly two years, Associated Press journalists traced the origins of one boat and the people who died in it."
- Kirk Tuck explains why he likes Older, Manual Focus Lenses and what's wrong with modern autofocus lenses. "They have no hard infinity stops, no depth of field scales and (most grievous of all) they lack distance scales," he writes.
- Kent DuFault catalogs The Best Gifts for Photographers grouped by price, starting with the, uh, affordable and continuing to the, well, insane.
- Jessica Stewart and Madeleine Muzdakis report Smithsonian Places 4.5 Million Historic Images Into the Public Domain. "Available on a platform called Smithsonian Open Access, anyone can download, reuse and remix these images at any time -- for free under the Creative Commons Zero (CC0) license," they write.
- In Angry Restaurants and Diners Shun Food Influencers: 'Enough, Enough!', Jeanette Settembre reports restaurants are banning artificial light photography and video. "Some restaurants are telling diners of their photography policy in writing, following suit with private clubs such as Soho House which has long forbid photos," she writes.
Plus a couple of things off the beaten path but still of some relevance:
- Make Something Wonderful is a curated collection of Steve Jobs's speeches, interviews and correspondence (not to mention an engaging Web publication). OTOH, Jason Snell reports from the field after visiting an Apple user group that Declining Software Quality Is Just One of the Many Issues Bugging Apple Users.
- We're not the only ones having problems with Twitter. David Folkenflik reports NPR Quits Twitter After Being Falsely Labeled as 'State-Affiliated Media'. Publishing is not for amateurs.
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