Graciela Iturbide: “Photography is a Living Matter”
At the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain in Paris, the most famous Latin American photographer is exhibiting two hundred images representing a life dedicated to capturing “anything she finds surprising.”
The Day Bob Dylan Became Bob Dylan
American photographer Rowland Scherman photographed many of the iconic musical, cultural, and political events of the 1960s, including the Beatles’ first US concert, and Woodstock. In 1963, he covered the Newport Folk Festival, where musician Bob Dylan appeared for the first time, on stage with Joan Baez.
How Ukrainian Photographers are Covering The War
As the war in Ukraine continues to spread fear throughout the world, Blind collected testimonies and images from Ukrainian photographers on the ground. They tell their personal story.
The Lonka project : The Faces of Holocaust Survivors
It’s been said that “to write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric” insomuch as that even poetry — the first art — requires us to attempt to come to terms with the inexplicable. One might then assume that any art born of an attempt at interpretation of absolute evil is bound to fail. But what of […]
Roy DeCarava: “Truth is Beautiful”
A new exhibition reveals how Roy DeCarava helped elevate photography as an art form.
Michele McNally, First New York Times Photography Director, Dies at 66
Michele McNally, the first photography director of The New York Times who brought photojournalism to new heights, died on February 18 from complications of pneumonia in a hospital in Yonkers, NY. She was 66.
French Hip-Hop in Photography
The exhibition “Hip-hop 360: Gloire à l’art de rue”, on view at the Philharmonie de Paris, showcases the work of photographers closely linked with the movement.
A Celebration of Los Angeles Street Culture
Over the past decade, Sean Maung has traveled across his hometown, photographing the people who give it style and substance.
Bill Brandt: A World Apart
Foam in Amsterdam showcases Bill Brandt, a singular artist, unparalleled in the history of the medium. The exhibition “The Beautiful and the Sinister” is a journey through a body of work that has weathered the test of time.
Unwriting Photobook History
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 in the photobook. Histories of Soviet, Latin American, Chinese, Dutch, Japanese, Dutch, and Spanish photobooks were published in the years after. With a few exceptions (Enghelab Street, Hannah Darabi’s book […]
Portrait of an Artist : In Conversation with Shirin Neshat
Hugo Huerta Marin and Shirin Neshat discuss photography through the lens of power, intimacy, beauty, and dignity.
How to Be a King: a Beginner’s Guide
What kind of person travels thousands of miles to a remote pacific community in the hope of being hailed as the saviour of that community? What kind of person dresses up in full dress uniform with medals and epaulettes and proclaims themselves the king of an island? And why are these people not merely tolerated, […]
Roger Kasparian : The Birth of the Swinging Sixties
He memorialized rock, pop, jazz, and yéyé stars as they rose to glory in the 1960s, and his work finally gets a wider audience: Roger Kasparian is exhibiting a series of 30 silver gelatin prints at the Jazz Club Étoile in Paris.
Life on Top of Ruins
In his book, La ruine de sa demeure, French photographer Mathieu Pernot retraces his grandfather’s 1926 trip to the Middle East.
James Van Der Zee: A Portrait of Harlem
Step into almost any scene in Rebecca Hall’s Passing, a pitch-perfect recreation of Harlem at the height of its vaunted renaissance, and it would be unsurprising for the camera to zoom in on a framed photograph that was shot by James Van Der Zee. Hall’s eloquent tone poem is dynamically shot in a 4:3 framing […]
Gregory Crewdson’s Elegiac Photographs of Post Industrial America
The new book Alone Street explores the intimacy and vulnerability of feeling alone in the world.
Up Close and Personal With The Rolling Stones by Dominique Tarlé
The Galerie de l’Instant in Paris is showcasing never-before-seen photographs by the famous French photographer who spent six months in the French Riviera with one of the world’s greatest rock bands. It was 1971, the year The Rolling Stones recorded the album Exile on Main St.
The Loire with Thibaut Cuisset
The photographer-colorist Thibaut Cuisset was committed to recording the metamorphoses of the Loire basin throughout the course of this majestic river.
Surfing: Portraits and Street Scenes
In his first monograph La Vie des Autres, photographer Fabien Voileau focuses on surfing and daily life in megacities.
An Enchanting Walk Through New York Street Life in 1982
On the 40th anniversary of his series “Manhattan 1982”, Gun Roze shares his memories of moving through the city’s multiple worlds.
Gaston Paris: Photographer and Illustrator
Discovered fortuitously by French photography historian Michel Frizot nearly thirty years ago, Gaston Paris is being honored through two exhibitions, at the Pompidou Center and the Galerie Roger-Viollet, in Paris, as well as a publication.
For the Love of a Car
Turkish photographer Can Görkem spent several months photographing drifters, drivers who intentionally oversteer, with loss of traction, while maintaining control and driving their car through the entirety of a corner.
Arlene Gottfried’s Chronicle of Love, Friendship and Resilience
The new exhibition “Midnight” chronicles the extraordinary changes in one man’s life over 20 years.
PhotoBrussels Awakens
The first baby steps seem a distant memory as PhotoBrussels launches the sixth iteration of the festival. The event has become an institution, bringing together some forty venues and giving a fresh impetus to photography in a capital where the medium is still struggling for recognition. Slowly but surely photography is gaining ground in the […]
James Bidgood, Master of LGBTQ Photography, Dies At 88
James Bidgood, whose groundbreaking queer photographs and film influenced American art, died on Monday, January 31, 2022, from complications due to Covid-19. He was 88.
Harold Feinstein: The Joy of Living
The final installment in a trilogy of exhibitions, “Life as it was” looks back at four decades of photography by American Harold Feinstein. This is an opportunity to immerse ourselves in a humane, genial body of work.
How We See the World Through Our Phones
In a new series, artist Tabitha Soren captures the world as she sees it through her iPad, photographing the fingerprints that dot her screen in a pointed commentary on the relationships we have with technology—and not with each other.
Alisa Resnik: Passing Through the Night
The Russian-born, Berlin-based photographer’s stunning book, On The Night That We Leave, published by lamaindonne, portrays the night as a melodic interval vibrant with light.
Revisiting the Roller Disco Era in 1980s Los Angeles
A dazzling new book celebrates Flipper’s Roller Boogie Palace — best described as “Studio 54 on wheels.”
Best Regards, Samuel Fosso
They are heirs to a time in suspension, and 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: Samuel Fosso, the art of multiplicity.
Why do Photographers Need to Learn Conducting Interviews
Photographers aim at communicating with images. This is why we need to become good interviewers as well.
On the Road to Arbaeen, Home to the World’s Largest Pilgrimage
Photographer Aline Deschamps photographed the world’s largest religious gathering in Arbaeen, Iraq.
Matt Black Documents the Geography of Poverty in America
For six years, and over 100,000 Miles through 46 States, Matt Black crisscrossed the United States by car and bus looking at America while recording the lives of rural and working-class Americans living in poverty in the richest country in the world.
High Heels on Hard Concrete: New York Nightlife of the 70’s and ‘80s
Native New Yorker Frank Rispoli blends fashion and fetish photography with style and insouciance.
Hervé Guibert: A Writer Writing on Photography
Two plush animals nestled into the back of a picture frame; lucid gaze caught in a ray of sunlight; a work table: the images brought together in the exhibition “Self Image” are like a cumulative portrait that not only brings back to life the writer Hervé Guibert, but also draws the contours of his inner […]
Jean Dieuzaide: Beyond the Visible
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.
Omar Victor Diop: The Africa of the Future
The photographer Omar Victor Diop’s book offers a wealth of images foregrounding the altruism and resilience of Africans.
Wandering the Streets of 1980s New York City
Janet Delaney captures the small-town feel of the big city in her lyrical street photographs.
Historic Pittsburgh: A Grimy Wonderland
In the 1970s, David Aschkenas photographed Pittsburgh, in classic images that revive the city’s glorious past.
Through the Eyes of Film-Set Photographers
Their stills are among the most shared images and attract film audiences worldwide. However, their names remain unknown to the general public. They are film-set photographers whose task is to capture the essence and the feel of a film, apart from the trailer, even as they document the history of cinema. Still photography is as […]
Max Hirshfeld’s Back Pages
The American photographer takes us to the streets of Washington DC, where in the 1970s he documented the comings and goings of its inhabitants.
Has America Been Pushed Beyond Repair?
Photographer Ken Light spent ten years crisscrossing America for his latest book, Course of the Empire. He came of age in the 1960s and believed in America. But after a decade photographing the country, the state of the United States and the stories of those he met make him wonder if it is an empire in decline.
Ralph Gibson: “I Am an Insider, Not an Observer”
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.
Rania Matar’s Intimate Portraits of Girls On the Cusp of Womanhood
A new book of environmental portraits made in the United States and Middle East explores the shared experiences of young womanhood.
Afropean: Plural Identities
The bilingual French/English photography magazine The Eyes has invited author Johny Pitts to curate its 12th issue on the theme of Afropean identity.
