Photographer Jean-Christian Bourcart has assembled a selection of photographs discarded by the Farm Security Administration, the US agency created to aid poor farmers during the Great Depression. In 1937, the FSA hired several photographers — including Dorothea Lange and Walker Evans — to document the rural conditions. Bourcart’s work, available in NFT format, questions the act of curating images.
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.
Brantville, published by Stanley Barker, looks back at the work of Melinda Blauvelt, who took a series of photographs in this small town of Nova Scotia between 1972 and 1974.
With “Image Cities”, Anastasia Samoylova begins a reflection on the city, the realism of images and, more broadly, our contemporary lives. A work exhibited for the first time in France at Paris Photo.
For over 40 years, photographer Shelby Lee Adams has traveled the mountain of Eastern
Kentucky to photograph. Now in his 70's, Adams has been exploring his archive of
unpublished work to see what may have been overlooked. His new book, From the Heads of
the Hollers, contains 90 of these unpublished photographs, portraying the culture and people
of Appalachia.
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.
Which trinkets did Robert Frank and Todd Webb keep for decades—and why? The stories behind the objects.
In an exhibition at La Mécanique Générale in Arles, Gregory Crewdson explores the feeling of vulnerability in the face of solitude.
Since 2015, the Salon Photo Doc in Paris (May 12–14) has been putting new documentary photography in the spotlight. This is an opportunity to look at how the genre has evolved and discover new forms of expression in what has long been considered the most noble of the photographic genres.
Throughout its history, photography has been diversifying modes of production and distribution. Among them, the photobook is certainly one of the best known and the most consistent, making the Eighth Art indissociable from paper. To create book-objects, many publishers engage in a creative competition. Many do it out of love, and know how to take risks that encourage emerging talents. Before we enter this world apart, let’s take a look at what happens on the other side of the page.
An illustrated edition of Susan Sontag’s classic On Photography breathes new life into the essays by a woman who, with unflinching passion, showed the sometimes-decisive influence of photography on our society.
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.
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.
“It should be the responsibility of modern photographers to free women, and ultimately everyone, from the tyranny of youth and perfection.” This says everything. Peter
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.
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.
The new book Alone Street explores the intimacy and vulnerability of feeling alone in the world.
Jean Dieuzaide would have been one hundred years old this year. The Toulouse City Hall, in France, which was entrusted with much of the artist’s collections at his death in 2003, celebrates this anniversary with a retrospective. Curated and edited by the historian of photography Françoise Denoyelle, an exhibition and a book publication take us on a journey through 60 years of photography with more than 200 works and documents, many published for the first time.
An exclusive look at the early work of Patrick D. Pagnano, who used photography to uplift the working class.
The British photographer Jamie Hawkesworth refines his approach to portraiture in The British Isles, published by Mack.
For more than 20 years, from the start of the Soviet-Afghan War through the rise of the Taliban and their control of the country, Edward Grazda photographed Afghanistan. The photographs he made show an Afghanistan going through great changes, and mirror what is going on in the country today.
A captivating new book celebrates the role photography played in the life and work of Barkley L. Hendricks, who made pioneering contributions to Black portraiture and conceptualism.
In his new book entitled Roosevelt Station, New York photographer David Rothenberg captures his subjects – commuters, airport-bound travelers, panhandlers, missionaries, and others – awash in the radiant, cathedral-like light of Jackson Heights–Roosevelt Avenue/74th Street train station’s concourse. These otherwise candid, rush-hour images assume an otherworldly theatrical guise.
Stephen Shore’s latest publication, Steel Town, released by MACK, depicts the fragility of the region in the United States known as the Rust Belt, devastated by the closing of steel mills in the 1970s.
Magnum Photos member Peter van Agtmael shares his journey as a conflict photographer, and the importance of adopting an open, questioning approach to photojournalism.
A new exhibition at International Center of Photography in New York and a new book mediate on the role of documentary photography in our ever-changing world, offering a slice of life that is poetic in form.
The peculiar thing about documentary photography is that, since the inception of the medium, documenting has been the very purpose of photography as a whole. Here, historian Guillaume Blanc continues his in-depth look at what many consider to be the nobility of photography. Read the first part of the course here if needed.
KBr discreetly opened its doors last month in Barcelona’s Port Olímpic district. The pandemic did little to discourage the public who flocked to this new space dedicated to photography to see the two inaugural exhibitions: Bill Brandt and Paul Strand.
In photography, portraiture is a constantly evolving genre. Writing a history of portrait photography amounts to writing a history of photography itself. Historian Guillaume Blanc gives us insight into a practice appreciated by many photographers.
In this second part of our lesson on the history of portrait photography, the historian Guillaume Blanc continues his exploration of the genre by theme, starting with the social question. Read the first part of the course here if needed.
Over the past 40 years, Jamel Shabazz has created a singular archive of New York life on the move, finding intimate moments of beauty and humanity in the most unlikely of places: the public transit system.
In the newly opened space dedicated to the collection of the famous fashion designer agnès b., photography dialogues with every form of visual art. La Fab in Paris offers a fresh look at works of photography which we find scattered throughout the venue.
Thomas Sauvin is one of the recurring names in today’s vernacular photography. This French artist and long-time resident of China has given new life to negatives found in a landfill in northern Beijing through daring exhibitions and publications. A sprawling project that enables viewers to discover photographs of anonymous people from the Middle Kingdom.
A world traveler, cab driver, and teacher, Nelly Rau-Häring is, above all, a photographer. Born in Switzerland in 1947 she made Berlin her home in the mid-1960s. Like no one else, she recorded the city’s life, boredom, joie-de-vivre, struggle, and exuberance. A selection of her photos of West and East Berlin spanning over four decades are showcased in at f3–freiraum für fotografie in Berlin.
To celebrate an expanded edition of American Prospects (first ed. 1987), released by Steidl in November, the Xippas Gallery is showcasing for the first time thirteen photographs selected by the artist.
Considered to be one of the major figures in Italian photography, Guido Guidi has spent years exploring northern Italian landscapes. In his latest book, In Veneto, 1984–89, published this fall by Mack, he brings out a series devoted to the eponymous region. We visit the artist whose Italy doesn’t fit into postcards.
Regarded as the most celebrated French photographer working today, Valérie Belin explores surface, identity and artificiality in her work. Each of these themes is given prominence in her latest series Reflection, which was commissioned by the V&A in London, and takes its inspiration from the museum archives
Until April 20, the Lyon gallery Le Réverbère brings together the works of four photographers who share similar concerns. Serge Clément, Baudoin Lotin, Julien Magre, and Bernard Plossu are all tireless gold seekers, obsessed by the Abstract poetry of the real.
The work of this iconic photographer is now on display at the Hayward Gallery in London, with over a hundred early images, for the most part printed by the artist.
An exhibition at the Jeu de Paume in Paris traces a prolific decade in the work of the Italian photographer. A pioneer of color photography, Luigi Ghirri (1943–1992) was able to turn photography into an instrument for better capturing “earth writing” and the “architecture of the ephemeral.”
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