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The Washington Post Monday April 29, 2024
For some people, the best part of a road trip is foraging for food. Photographer Kate Medley seems to be of that persuasion, notes The Washington Post. Medly crisscrossed the American South to document the food culture of the region’s “rural and urban pitstops” — the convenience stores, gas stations and quick stops that dot the landscape and tell a tale of “unexpected community, generosity, labor, and creativity.” The result is her book Thank You Please Come Again: How Gas Stations Feed & Fuel the American South.
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The New York Times Monday April 29, 2024
Once, podcasting required only high-end audio equipment: soundproofing, microphones, a dedicated control room. Now, notes The New york Times, cameras are also required: As consumers, especially those under 30, spend more time on video platforms like YouTube and TikTok, many audio creators are reimagining their work to be seen as well as heard. YouTube’s powerful recommendation algorithm is key to its allure. But can audio creators can compete in the oversaturated, cutthroat universe of viral online video?
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The Guardian Monday April 29, 2024
Peter Hujar published only one book before his death from AIDS in 1987. That 1976 book, Portraits in Life and Death, was hardly noticed. But now, notes The Guardian, his portraits of drag queens, poets and artists are seen as vital documents of a vanished world. Forty-one images from Portraits in Life and Deathare on view at at the Istituto Santa Maria della Pietà, Venice, as past of the Venice biennale (through Nov, 24). “He made me conscious of the importance of the photograph as an object,” says curator Grace Deveney.
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