Weekly roundup of the best articles from around the web for photographers, filmmakers and visual artists. Enjoy!

“Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.”
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Deconstructing the Male Gaze – British Journal of Photography
Black Mentifact and a Sense of Place – Art 21
Hunter S. Thompson’s Case for Snap Shooting – Don’t Take Pictures
Decoding Instagram – PDN
The Photographer Behind John Waters’s ‘Pecker’ – Aperture
Vivian Maier Captures Timeless Love – My Modern Met
Four Crucial Tax Tips for Photographers – Rangefinder
Inside the Final Years of Robert Mapplethorpe’s Studio – Huck
Using Photography and Book Making to Recover – Feature Shoot
Navigating Backstabbing & Dishonesty to Film Steve Bannon – NH Register
For This Young Photographer, a ‘Simple Song’ of Images – Aperture
Why You Need to Put Your Camera in High-Pressure Situations – No Film School
The Eyes of Orson Welles – Nonfics
Making Sense of Europe’s Controversial New Copyright Rule – Wired
Are You Ready for a Terapixel Digital Camera? – Phoblographer
A Complete Look at New Directors/New Films 2019 – The Film Stage
How Hollywood Made Black ‘Unbankable’ – Film Comment
For Turn of the Century African Americans, the Camera Was Empowering – SM
The Website That Makes YouTube Fun Again – Gizmodo
POTD: Photographs to Stop a Meltdown
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Source: PDN Great Weekend Reads in Photography & Filmmaking