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Around The Horn
12 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 the Tony Awards, the British seaside, graffiti composites, gels, Marilyn Monroe, Bruce Davidson, Kodak, kit costs and a Getty project.
- The Guardian presents the best fashion shots from last night's Tony Awards from Lupita Nyongo's breastplate to Lea Michele's red splattered to dress to Barry Manilow's blue blazer.
- Dan Baker's Bright Dull Days is a celebration of life at the British seaside. "We find a certain amount of escapism when we hit the seaside and this affords us time to enjoy all the little moments that are on offer," he says.
- Jim Kasson looked at some old photos he took at Ford Ord and came up with an idea for making Graffiti Composites.
- Joe McNally talks about Sculpting With Gels in the Studio. "I jumped on the gel bandwagon in Vegas recently, working with the irrepressibly talented Will Styles," he writes.
- Marilyn Monroe Unravels in the Desert, Eve Arnold remembers a candid of the actress while the photographer was documenting the making of The Misfits. Tim Adams interviewed Arnold about this shot in 2002 when she was 90. "She made me feel as if I were brilliant," Arnold said, "and I suppose I made her feel as if she were brilliant."
- In These Important Photos by Bruce Davidson Are Previously Unseen, Chris Gampat presents images from the upcoming exhibit Bruce Davidson: The Way Back at the Howard Greenburg Gallery. Davidson reviewed his contact sheets from as far back as the 1950s and made prints of the images that still resonated.
- Kevin Raber publishes The Story of Kodak's Fall by A.I. (or should we say C.W., conventional wisdom), which concludes, "The company's inability to innovate in the age of digital photography, lack of strategic planning and leadership, a corporate culture that bred complacency, failure to adapt to changes in the market and an unwieldy corporate structure all contributed to the company's decline." We often visited Kodak during the company's decline and would observe anyone who thought the company wasn't innovative in digital photography both in hardware and software did not know what was going on. Its inkjet printers were both affordable and revolutionary, as well. And its employees, thinking of their own futures, were keen to transfer to the digital divisions. We'd suggest what happened to Kodak was much what Joseph Conrad speculated had happened to the Titanic in which he observed "size is to a certain extent an element of weakness. The bigger the ship, the more delicately she must be handled."
- In Scaling Kit Costs, Thom Hogan wonders, "Why is it that there isn't a really good kit that fits into the U.S.$1000-2000 range and can enjoinder near permanent satisfaction on the part of a broad spectrum of users?"
- In Getty Gets in Dialogue With L.A., Valerie Tate reports the Getty Museum partnered with four local nonprofits to teach multigenerational artists photography inspired by Getty's current exhibition, Dawoud Bey and Carrie Mae Weems: In Dialogue.
More to come! Meanwhile, here's a look five years back. And please support our efforts...