The Oz is a sparse newsletter of short fragments pairing brief visual or film descriptions with cryptic catalogue codes. Its issues are mostly atmospheric captions about Soviet-era architecture, dawn cityscapes and light studies rather than reported or argued content.
Website: https://theoz.now/
A photography teacher writes personal, literary essays on photography, including a two-part response to Karl Ove Knausgaard's novel The School of Night and notes on his forthcoming lexicon of photography terms. Readers get reflective writing that links photography education, books and the history of words.
Each issue pairs a historic postcard with a present-day recreation photo to explore a building, monument or artwork and the history behind it. It covers modernist architecture, public monuments and urban history with detailed context on architects, patrons and artists.
A personal blog-style newsletter mixing first-person travel writing and photography from rural Vietnam with detailed investigations of Chinese porcelain bought at auction and from collectors. Readers get close observation and worked examples of how to test an attribution using marks, measurements, magnification and UV light.
A weekly newsletter from working photographer Dina Litovsky offering behind-the-lens reflections on editorial assignments and photographic craft. Issues compare how different photographers portray the same subject, recount magazine shoots, and examine cultural events through the camera.
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