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Around The Horn
4 May 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 Joel Meyerowitz, Carlos Javier, Utah, a history of women photographers, Lee Friedlander, AI on your smartphone, Photshop via AI, Raw exposures and Jason Lee.
- In 'What Have I Seen?' the Guardian features a few images from Joel Meyerowitz's The Pleasure of Seeing, which features conversations with Lorenzo Braca about his 60-year career in photograph.
- Suzanne Sease features the Migrant Workers of Carlos Javier's personal project. "Undocumented immigrants live under the radar with meager wages and poor access to education, social services and health care," he says. "Nonetheless, I have seen how they remain resilient and strive to be part of the American Dream."
- Stephanie Mencimer reports on Utah's Suicide Pact With the Fossil Fuel Industry with images by Russel Albert Daniels. "As Russel and I bumped along the dirt roads of eastern Utah in search of Enefit's land, it became painfully obvious that the Estonians had overlooked a major problem when they plunked down $42 million to acquire 30,000 acres of sagebrush in the basin: water or the lack of it," she writes.
- Grace Ebert reviews A World History of Women Photographers translated from French by Ruth Taylor and Bethany Wright. "The 504-page book pairs hundreds of images with text by an international roster of 160 women writers, granting similar space to each photographer and unearthing a chronically undervalued group," she writes.
- In Filmmaker Joel Coen Puts His Spin on the Photos of Lee Friedlander (gift link), Arthur Lubow tells how photography dealer Jeffrey Fraenkel (of Fraenkel Gallery on Geary St. in San Francisco) got filmmaker Joel Coen and his wife, the actress Frances McDormand, to select images for two shows and a book of Friedlander's images.
- J. D. Biersdorfer shows How to Automatically Edit and Enhance Your Smartphone Photos (gift link). "Vanity-driven repairs are popular, but A.I.-powered editing can even fix fuzzy focus or entirely remove that inebriated fellow photobombing your family beach portrait with just a few screen taps," she writes.
- John Nack features four recent videos of Christian Cantrel Driving Photoshop via AI.
- Jim Kasson discusses How to Expose Raw Files in the first part of a two-part series. "Hopefully, this gave you a basic understanding of how exposure works and how photon noise affects that exposure reading," he writes. "In the second half of this article (to be published next week), we'll go over how to put this knowledge into practice, to get the best scientific exposure possible for your images."
- Stanley/Barker has published TX | CA 17 by Jason Lee. The images were made in the summer of 2017 on a drive from Lee's then-adopted home state of Texas to Los Angeles, where he had lived previously.
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