This week PPD explored how journalists, and citizens wielding phone cameras on the streets of American cities, are preparing for confrontations with federal immigration agents. On Tuesday we spotlighted an article from the Columbia Journalism Review detailing how New York media outlets are being proactive about defending their rights as they anticipate the deployment of federal law enforcement, The effort comes after altercations between journalists and ICE officers that left one video journalist injured. On Wednesday we spotlighted an article by an Indiana University scholar explaining how using camera systems to recored police activity can make you a target of surveillance.

  Anniversaries are probably celebrated more by publishers than by lovers—so as a book-lover I’m taking this opportunity to celebrate a book that came into my hands almost ten years ago: Isamu Noguchi: A Sculptor’s World (Steidl 2018).This is a great time to take a deep dive into this exceptional publication, in light of the exhibition, Noguchi’s New York, which just opened at the Noguchi Garden and Museum,. The book went out of print around 2022, but...