artnet news Thursday October 5, 2023
Want to buy the home of a photo legend? Ansel Adams‘s secluded home in the tony Sea Cliff neighborhood of San Francisco, on the edge of the Presidio, has hit the market for $5.45 million. It’s the first time in more than 50 years that his childhood home has come up for sale, notes Artnet. Built by Adams’s parents in 1902 as an Arts and Crafts chalet on what were then remote dunes, the residence grew to its current form in 1929 when an annex was built by architect Alfred Henry Jacobs under the direction of Adams and his wife. The house features four bedrooms, vaulted 20-foot ceilings and a wood-burning fireplace, notes Sotheby’s International Realty.
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AnOther Thursday October 5, 2023
Off the M4 motorway in South Wales lies Port Talbot, a town that, according to its arguably most famous native, actor Michael Sheen, is flush with extraterrestrial activity, notes AnOther. British photographer Roo Lewis set out to capture the pockets of magic that underpin a town fascinated with folklore and storytelling, and the result is the book Port Talbot UFO Investigation Club (GOST). Lewis’s monograph is not a study of UFO sightings but a documentation of the human spirit in a place often overlooked, notes adds AnOther.
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DP Review Thursday October 5, 2023
Nikon says its newly announced Nikkor Z 135mm f/1.8 S 'Plena' lens—a mid-telephoto portrait prime for Nikon's Z-series cameras—was built with goals for sharpness, edge-to-edge brightness, round bokeh throughout with minimal cats eye and a 'superior' light gathering quality, notes DP Review. To help the lens soak up light, Nikon has included two types of anti-reflection coating and a coating that addresses ghosting and flaring. PetaPixel says the lens is super-sharp with “perfect bokeh.”
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The Washington Post Thursday October 5, 2023
“In 2013, as a resident of Baltimore, I didn’t think that parts of the city understood or even cared about the rise in homicides. Baltimore saw a spike in homicides in 2013 from 219 in 2012 to 235, which at the time ‘defied regional and national trends.’ I wanted to show the toll gun violence was taking on the city.” So says photographer J.M. Giordano, who, notes The Washington Post, has spent years documenting the aftermath of gun violence in the city he has long called home. The work is now collected in the book 13-23.
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