The Eastman Kodak Company, a brand as big in its heyday as Apple or Google today, has become a cautionary tale for companies slow to adapt to change. But, noted The New York Times recently, Kodak is having a moment again, mostly overseas, through trademark licensing agreements with manufacturers and retailers of a wide range of products. The company's logo is being slapped on everything from apparel and luggage to solar panels, power generators, televisions, voice recorders and binoculars. South Korea is the epicenter of Kodak chic: There, some 123 brick-and-mortar stores selling only products from Kodak Apparel.

  Susan Wides, a photo artist who traded NYC living for a new home upstate, near Catskill, during the Pandemic lockdown, is a long-time DART subscriber and contributor. Recognized for her innovative use of shift-tilt distortion in large-format photography to explore perception and presence, her work was first featured in AP17, in 2001.  Since her immersion in the wildness of her present environment, the images she creates have become increasingly abstract and painterly. Done usi...