KQED Thursday January 19, 2023
Dave Schubert, who captured the “underworld of smart-ass scrappers, non-stop taggers and street-fighting drunkards” in San Francisco, was discovered dead on Jan. 5 at his longtime home in the the city’s Mission District, notes KQED. He was 40. Schubert’s work was exhibited at venues in San Francisco, Chicago, Los Angeles and New York and seen in publications including Anthem, Purple Magazine, and Thrasher. He moved to San Francisco in 1995 after being awarded a scholarship to study photography at the San Francisco Art Institute and soon immersed himself in the Bay’s thriving skateboarding and graffiti scene.
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MY MODERN MET Thursday January 19, 2023
“Being half-Lebanese, my goal has been to explore the Middle East more and share awareness of the beautiful landscapes to encourage others to visit these places,” says Basel, Switzerland-based photographer Benjamin Barakat at My Modern Met, which spotlights his “electrifying” astrophotography taken amid the stunning backdrops of in the region, including the landscape of Jordan. “Petra is what first attracted me to Jordan,” Barakat says, “and it was a wish of mine to capture it under the night sky."
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GIZMODO Thursday January 19, 2023
Over the years, Instagram moved its focus away from creativity to business, ads and shopping; but now, notes DIY Photography, the app is inching back in the other direction. Instagram has announced that it’s removing the Shop tab from its app. The change will come next month and will redirect the Reels tab to the bottom of the screen to replace the Shop tab. The new post button will also move to the bottom of the screen, adds Gizmodo. The Shop tab was first introduced in 2020 to replace the then-popular Activity tab.
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Art Institute of Chicago Thursday January 19, 2023
In 1986, French artist Sophie Calle introduced herself to people attending an institute for the blind in Paris and asked them “what their image of beauty was.” Calle photographed each person she interviewed and typed notes of their conversation, which were displayed next to her images when the series debuted in Los Angeles in 1989. The work, which cemented Calle’s reputation as an artist who is part sleuth, part philosopher, is on view at the Art Institute of Chicago through Jan. 23. Art in America has more.
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