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 The volume represents an intimate look at a fifty-year-long career with handpicked, mostly unpublished images.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
The 101 photographs that make up Nobuyoshi Araki’s Shi Nikki, or the Private Diary only he knows how to unlock, are featured for the first time in their entirety at the Bourse de Commerce-Pinault Collection in Paris. This is a great introduction to the unclassifiable work of the Japanese photographer who puts the “I” in the foreground.
“I wasn’t trying to be like the guy who photographed my Bar Mitzvah, someone who comes in to please everyone. I wish it was Diane Arbus who took the pictures of my Bar Mitzvah,” says Jewish-American photographer Godlis, remembering the 1974 trip to Florida that changed his life — pictures from which have just been published in the new book Godlis: Miami.
On November 4, 2021, as part of Leica‘s celebration of photography, American photographer Ralph Gibson received the Leica Hall of Fame Award 2021 for Lifetime Achievement. He is also being honored with a retrospective exhibition, on view through the end of February 2022, at the Leica Gallery in Wetzlar, Germany.
An exclusive look at the early work of Patrick D. Pagnano, who used photography to uplift the working class.
She is one of the world’s most iconic portrait artists who, over five decades, has consecrated some of America’s biggest celebrities. Recipient of the William Klein Photography Award from the Académie des Beaux-Arts, Annie Leibovitz is the subject of an exhibition at the Institut de France, in Paris, while simultaneously releasing her first book devoted entirely to the world of fashion.
A new gallery show in La Jolla, California showcases Estabrook’s images from the 1970s, taken from multiple road trips across the country.
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.
For nearly 60 years, Joel Meyerowitz has been drawn to the flower in its many splendored forms. Here he looks back at its role in his storied career.
Print is rumored to be dead, but there’s something about the allure of a magazine, of holding a glossy publication in your hands, that keeps
Magnum Photos member Peter van Agtmael shares his journey as a conflict photographer, and the importance of adopting an open, questioning approach to photojournalism.
For sixty years Japanese photographer Shisei Kuwabara has been documenting the city of Minamata and those who suffer from the disease that bears its name.
Recently rediscovered photographs from Todd Webb’s five-month trip to Africa offer a look at the relationship between independence and imperialism in the Global South.
Native New York Godlis celebrates his hometown in a new book documenting alternately humorous, surreal, and poignant scenes of everyday life.
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.
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.
In memory of Magnum Photos member Bruno Barbey, who documented the conflict and celebrated beauty around the globe for more than half a century.
In this selection, you will find the most important photo books of photo portrait history. These include the works from the greatest photographers that have highly influenced the art form, from the fashion world to socially oriented subjects. Ranging from different time periods and artistic intentions, this list is a great starting place to dive into the essence of portraiture.
A show of New York native Sid Kaplan’s work is currently on view at Les Douches Galerie in Paris. It’s the first time his oeuvre has been shown in France.
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.
On October 17, 2019, photographer Yael Martinez won the W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography for his projet entitled “The House that Bleeds”. It is among the oldest photography awards and it is presented annually to a photographer whose work follows the humanistic tradition of W. Eugene Smith.
The photographer who captured old time American musicians leaves behind an astonishing legacy.
The Maison Européenne de la Photographie (MEP) has drawn on its impressive collection of 25,000 works to create an exceptional exhibition on the theme of noir, with clear implications for photography!
At the Getty Museum, in Los Angeles, over 150 works trace three decades in which photography became the luminous weapon of the Black Arts Movement — an instrument of dignity, a tool of defiance, and an indelible act of presence in the world.
In Another England, Phillip Toledano shapes a revisited England through the Midjourney application, deliciously plausible in places, frankly sinister in others.
The photographer, writer, and jewelry designer has spent more than five decades documenting the cultural, artistic, and stylistic identity of Black America. Her first major monograph has just been published by Aperture.
The book Queer Happened Here charts a century of queer culture hidden in plain sight.
The exhibition “Black is Beautiful” celebrates the vision of Kwame Brathwaite, the Brooklyn-born photographer who popularized the phrase and helped shape a bold aesthetic of Black pride in the 1960s.
The best-known German photographer of the interwar period, Paul Wolff is nevertheless a forgotten figure in the history of photography. How can one explain the astonishing disappearance of such a witness to a Germany that was undergoing both renewal and the darkest hours of its history? The first retrospective devoted to his work in France lifts part of the mystery of Paul Wolff, between light and shadow.
