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A Running Record of Findings from the Internet / August 3, 2026

How Three Friends Turned Photography into a Way of Life

Michael Londres traces how Minor White, Aaron Siskind, and Harry Callahan turned photography inward in the mid-twentieth century — treating the camera not as a tool for documentation but as an instrument of personal expression and spiritual transcendence.

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By Michael Londres · Aperture

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Design

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  3. Inside the hand-painted animations bringing isamu noguchi's unrealized playgrounds to life

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  4. A Crafted Shelter by V Taller: Not A Hotel Retreat in Yakushima, Japan

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Arts & Culture
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    MUJI is Restoring Antique Furniture Salvaged from Kominka Across Japan

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  2. SPOTLIGHT: A centuries old Murano glassmaker reinvents itself for the modern era

    Sight Unseen·Jul 2

  3. Photographs of Atlantic City Sand Sculpture (ca. 1880–1920)

    Public Domain Review·Jul 29

  4. Walter Benjamin Warned Us About AI

    Hyperallergic·Aug 1

Sound

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    NPR Music·Aug 3

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  3. The Box Set: An Appreciation, Vol. 3

    Aquarium Drunkard·Jul 28

  4. Electronic Music Pioneer Patrick Gleeson Has Died At 91

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Collecting

  1. A collectors' guide to A. Lange & Söhne Handwerkskunst

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  2. A lost Indiana Jones adventure recovered

    A lost Indiana Jones adventure recovered

    Video Game History Foundation·Jun 29

  3. Heads Up For A Japanese History Lesson: The Roger Dubuis Excalibur The Kabuto Legacy

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  4. How Stone Sculpting Took Over This Skateboarder's Life

    Jenkem Magazine·Jun 23

Document

  1. Badges in the David Bowie Archive

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  2. In Memoriam: Betye Saar (1926–2026)

    LACMA Unframed·Jul 29

  3. Maria Nicanor talks with Robert Earl Paige, 2026 National Design Award Winner

    Cooper Hewitt Journal·Jul 28

  4. Black Memory Scholar: The Language of Storytellers

    Black Memory Scholar: The Language of Storytellers

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Film
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    Take It to the Limit One More Time: Michael Mann's 'Miami Vice' at 20

    Cinephilia & Beyond·Jul 28

  2. What Does a Christopher Nolan Movie Want?

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  3. Meeting Otar Iosseliani

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  4. "A Radical Democracy of Images": Mike Mills on His Work Outside of Feature Filmmaking

    Criterion Current·Jul 22

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