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Around The Horn
3 June 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 death, a camera/lens combo, Paul McCartney, Jackie Bouvier Kennedy and Paragraphica.
- In Death Is Part of Life, Michael Shaw and Cara Finnegan consider an image is from a story about intergenerational co-housing, a recent trend in Dutch living, by Ilvy Njiokiktjien of the VII Photo Agency. It's the latest in their long-running Chatting the Pictures feature.
- In A Thing I've Always Thought Should Be, Mike Johnston welcomes the Nikkor DX 24mm, suggesting you pair it with a Nikon Z 50. "You can do 85 percent of anything you'd ever want to do photographically with a Z 50 and you can do 85 percent of anything you'd ever want to do with a Z 50 with the 24mm f1.7 lens," he writes. "Nikon bliss. Happy day."
- Paul McCartney writes about his Lost Photos of Beatlemania from 1964. "Here was my own record of our first huge trip, a photographic journal of the Beatles in six cities, beginning in Liverpool and London, followed by Paris (where John and I had been ordinary hitchhikers just over two years before) and then what we regarded as the big time, our first visit as a group to America -- New York, Washington DC and Miami -- to the land where, at least in our minds, music's future was being born," he writes.
- In Jackie on My Mind (gift link), Maureen Dowd tells the story behind Carl Sferrazza Anthony's new biography, Camera Girl: The Coming of Age of Jackie Bouvier Kennedy, which covers Jackie Kennedy's single years in D.C., writing the Inquiring Camera Girl column for The Washington Times-Herald. "Paying $25 a week, it was a six-days-a-week column where she would ask people a question and snap their pictures with a bulky Speed Graflex," she writes.
- Paragraphica "is a context-to-image camera that uses location data and artificial intelligence to visualize a 'photo' of a specific place and moment. The camera exists both as a physical prototype and a virtual camera that you can try."
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