Recently unearthed footage from nearly 40 years ago shows the great photographer talking about honesty and cruelty in photography—and in The Americans. Special for Blind readers.
If you thought the master photographer was cantankerous and curmudgeonly, you haven’t seen his softer side.
They are the successors of Wright Morris, Walker Evans, Jakob Tuggener… Their images continue to enrich the world history of photography and our own impatient eyes. Blind shares the memories of some magical encounters with these virtuosos of the camera, soloists in black & white or in color, artists faithful to gelatin silver photography or bewitched by digital technologies. Today: Robert Frank, on the side of intuition.
Robert Frank’s magnum opus, The Americans, chronicled the photographer’s journey across the United States between 1955 and 1957 as he sought to capture America in
American photographer Robert Frank, one of the most famous of the 20th century, and a pioneer of documentary photography with the book The Americans, died in Inverness, USA, on Monday, September 9, 2019 at the age of 94. His death was confirmed to the New York Times by the Pace-MacGill Gallery, which represented him.
Since the 1960’s Frank Stewart has worked to capture intimate and empathic photographs of Black life, music, and culture. This new book is the first complete monograph and retrospective of Stewart’s work, bringing together 103 photographs, along with an artist interview, and texts by multiple critical voices, illuminating Stewart’s remarkable career.
Which trinkets did Robert Frank and Todd Webb keep for decades—and why? The stories behind the objects.
In 1955, photographers Robert Frank and Todd Webb set out to capture a rapidly changing America. Now, for the first time, a new exhibition in Houston shows their photos together — and reveals how what they saw forever changed their view of the country.
If you ask photobook aficionados what the “greatest” photobook of all time is, there will be a whole bunch of answers. In this poll, The Americans by Robert Frank got the most votes, Ravens by Masahisa Fukase and New York by William Klein were up there, and somewhere in the top ten, you’ll find Chizu (also known as The Map), by Kikuji Kawada.
The Fondation Cartier-Bresson in Paris presents a comprehensive retrospective dedicated to American photographer Stephen Shore, celebrated for his colorful explorations of America. The exhibition, complemented by a publication from Atelier EXB, showcases a selection of approximately one hundred images that highlight how various modes of transport are integral to his creative process.
To coincide with the release of a book devoted to Bernard Plossu, the Camera Obscura gallery in Paris presents a retrospective exhibition of sixty images tracing the career of this photographer of travel, walks, photographic chance, the unexpected and the glimpsed.
The renowned Dutch documentary photographer peacefully passed away in the presence of her family in Amsterdam on May 26, 2024.
For the past six decades, the American photographer Joel Meyerowitz has roamed the streets of the world, countrysides and beaches in search of life in blue, green, yellow and red. In the 1970s, his sense of modernism contributed to the acceptance of color photographs as works of art. In 2024, five major exhibitions celebrate his work.
A new book from Ralph Gibson, “Salon Littéraire,” offers a half-century of the legendary photographer’s stunning (and surprising) images of France.
For several years, photographer Arno Brignon embarked on a road trip across American cities named after European capitals. The project was carried out on film.
Joel Meyerowitz was one of the first to defend color photography at a time when it was rejected by the art world. A colorist, with an attention to detail… Meyerowitz is above all a man whose photography changed, and who, in turn, changed photography.
The year 2023 is ending on a photographic note, with a selection of 10 books that left their mark on photography enthusiasts as much as on the editorial team at Blind.
Dustin Pittman revisits the eccentric cast of characters who transformed the landscape of the late 20th century.
With 191 exhibitors from across the globe, Paris Photo offers a comprehensive snapshot of photographic and visual art from the 19th century to today. Anchoring the array of photo events spread throughout the French capital, the fair mirrors the contemporary societal issues with its newly inaugurated section dedicated to digital photography. What’s new in 2023? Blind talks with Florence Bourgeois, the fair’s director.
The Edge of the state of Texas is mighty big: 4137 miles of boundary big. In the spring of 2019, John Dyer, a San Antonio photographer with several books and numerous magazine covers to his credit, set out to see what it looked like.
A new exhibition explores the revolutionary Beat poet’s intimate archive of friends, lovers, and legends.
At 78, French photographer Bernard Plossu reveals previously unpublished photographs in an exhibition entitled “The American Years: Unpublished photographs 1966–1985” at Galerie du Jour Agnès b, in Paris. While his cult book Le Voyage Mexicain is being reissued by Contrejour, and at least three others are in the works, something has happened. Something that made him inconsolable.
In sixteen exceptional vintage prints, the Miranda Gallery honors a photographer obsessed with darkroom encounters.
Palazzo Grassi in Venice is devoting a superb, and first major, exhibition to the Condé Nast archives acquired in part by the Pinault Collection. Chronorama: Photographic Treasures of the 20th Century spotlights some of the richest and most astonishing works produced for this media company.
Starting in 1977, photographer Richard Sandler wandered the streets of Boston and New York, creating photographs that captured the changing city with its dramatic juxtapositions of class and race. The first major retrospective of Sandler’s work is on display at the Bronx Documentary Center through March 26th. The exhibition includes photographs from his monograph The Eyes of the City, other never-before-seen prints from his archive, and three of his films.
On the occasion of the exhibition Back to Beirut, devoted to the work of the photographer Gabriele Basilico, the French-Lebanese writer and journalist Sabyl Ghoussoub, the author of the novel Beyrouth-sur-Seine, which won the Goncourt des Lycéens Award in 2022, revisits in these photos the Lebanese capital of his memories.
French photographer Patrick Taberna has kept a personal diary in images for 25 years. Entitled Nos vies partagées [Our Shared Lives], the resulting book is a touching narrative combining personal memories, childhood impressions, and moments of daily life.
Les Douches galerie in Paris presents “American Reflections”, an exhibition and book that celebrates life in North America with a focus on Minneapolis, its people and streets through the eye of photographer Tom Arndt, born there in 1944.
Everlasting and timeless, a photo book is an ideal gift to put under the Christmas tree. If you don’t know which one to choose, Blind will share with you its selection of the best books on street photography to give to your loved ones.
Sported by the greatest photographers, Leica has defined the history of photography, and in the process became a true luxury item. Blind has traveled to Wetzlar, a small town near Frankfurt, Germany, where it all began.
Photographer Steve Davis dug into his archives and presents a selection of his best images of American culture mostly photographed during the 1970s and 1980s. He tells Blind his story.
Palazzo Reale in Milan presents a selection of about 100 images from Richard Avedon’s 60-year-long career, which left an indelible mark in 20th Century photography.
Having sifted through his archives, Eugene Richards, the masterful American documentary photographer, launches a fundraising appeal for his new book, In This Brief Life. The volume represents an intimate look at a fifty-year-long career with handpicked, mostly unpublished images. Blind talks with the photographer.
Blind met Ralph Gibson in Paris. The American photographer talks about his latest book Refractions 2, his vision of photography, and his quest for a third language combining image and music.
The American journalist and former figure of the Swiss magazine Camera, who was a reference between the 1920s and 1980s, died on October 5, in anonymity. He had contributed to launching the career of many great photographers.
The French Academy in Rome presents Florence and Damien Bachelot’s photography collection, at Villa Medici.
Encounter, Jed Fielding’s eye-candy of a book published by the Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego, captures city residents who, even as they face the consequences of economic and political crises, enjoy life to the fullest. The book opens a door to the history of the world’s streets.
Les Douches la Galerie, in Paris, presents about twenty of Louis Faurer’s prints, mainly in the streets of New York, between 1937 and 1950. The
“The Melancholy Watcher” exhibition is the quintessence of his art.
Bob Shaw revisits his early photography career documenting music, art, and daily life across Fort Worth.
The American photographer, who became known for his street and fashion images, died peacefully on September 10 at the age of 96 in Paris, his beloved city. Blind traces the career of the man who helped revolutionize photography.
The photographer, filmmaker, cinematographer, artist, and author of critical essays Babette Mangolte is being honored with the Women in Motion Photography Prize at the Rencontres d’Arles photography showcase for her body of work, which spans fifty years and has focused on dance, performance, cinema experimental cinema, subjectivity and the spectator.
“For the Record: Photography and the art of the Album Cover” is a musical trawl through the history of photography. Curated from the collection of Antoine de Beaupré, it features images by the great, the anonymous, and the forgotten.
The Magnum Photos member revisits his storied career in a new exhibition and monograph.
Through the publication of a biography by Claude Nori and the reissue of La Vallée de la Mort [Death Valley], a work published in the 1970s that has been out of print for more than a decade, Contrejour editions are once again shining the spotlight on Jeanloup Sieff, who passed away in 2000.
In 2004, The Photobook History Volume 1 was published. Written by photographer Martin Parr and author Gerry Badger, it led to a flurry of interest
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