The Diane Arbus Experience
By Sophie Bernard
July 7, 2023
Showcasing no fewer than 454 images, LUMA Arles presents the most comprehensive exhibition of the work of Diane Arbus to date.
Showcasing no fewer than 454 images, LUMA Arles presents the most comprehensive exhibition of the work of Diane Arbus to date.
A new exhibition and book explore the work of two American artists who redefined photography.
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.
“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.
Pier 24 Photography, a landmark photography museum in San Francisco, is celebrating its tenth anniversary. Home to the Pilara Foundation Collection, Pier 24 brings together the greatest names in photography, past and present, from Diane Arbus to Henry Wessel.
Photobooks have been for more than a century a powerful medium for visual storytelling, offering an intimate, tactile experience that goes beyond individual photographs. They
With Une histoire parallèle [A Parallel History], the duo Brodbeck & de Barbuat explore the possibilities of artificial intelligence through 220 icons from the history of photography, subtly examining our relationship with images. This exhibition is on display at the Papillon Gallery in Paris.
Dustin Pittman revisits the eccentric cast of characters who transformed the landscape of the late 20th century.
At the intersection of the artforms, seeing an opportunity for insight into reality and fantasy. The relationship between drag and photography is not new. Rather, it’s as old as photography itself, as if from the moment capturing an image became possible in the 19th century drag was cemented in its early forms.
Opened since July 1, the Newlands House Gallery in England hosts the first Eve Arnold exhibition in 10 years.
Classic and contemporary photos are on display in a new exhibition devoted to the Florence and Damien Bachelot Collection, with a focus on the portrait, offering visitors an original journey through the collections of the Réattu Museum in Arles.
The Rencontres d’Arles returns this year with a program dedicated to environmental issues. The festival invites us to rethink our relationship with the living world, even as we try to grapple with the realities of climate change.
An unlikely discovery and a book brings the New York’s revolutionary periodical back into the spotlight.
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.
The Maison Européenne de la Photographie inaugurates the first French retrospective of South African visual activist Zanele Muholi. The exhibition centers on a body of work that recounts civic battles waged by the black LGBTQIA+ community.
Fondation A in Brussels brings together works by some twenty artists, from Helen Levitt to Adriana Lestido, sparking a dialog of women’s artistic gaze. The exhibition Regards de Femmes is accompanied by an insightful catalog.
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.
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 work of Andy Sweet is exhibited, for the first time in Europe, in Atelier Galerie Taylor until November 17, 2022. “Andy Sweet – Miami Beach 70s” immerses us in the joyfully colorful daily life of the old-world Jewish community.
As part of Paris Photo, MUUS Collection features Rosalind Fox Solomon: The Early Work—an exhibition that focuses on the emergence of the American portraitist’s style.
To collectors around the world Paris Photo is a highly anticipated fair, and, to enthusiasts, an enormous exhibition that spans the history of photography from the nineteenth century through the present, as well as a panorama of current trends: what’s being done, what’s being bought.
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.
Penny Wolin spent three weeks in a down-at-the-heels hotel in 1975 Hollywood. Her photographs allow us access to a world both fascinating yet fleeting.
A retrospective at Château de Laréole (France) sheds new light on the career of this great Franco-American photographer whose monumental body of work probes the hidden worlds of prostitution, transsexuals, AIDS patients, women inmates, landmine victims, and more.
“Women R Beautiful” is a kaleidoscopic celebration of women and femmes made across Harlem and the Bronx.
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.
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
A new exhibit showcases the development of street photography across the 20th century, and how women came to define it.
The exhibition “Journeys in Memory” at the Musée d’Art et d’Histoire du Judaïsme in Paris takes a look at the work of photographer Patrick Zachmann.
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On the occasion of Paris Photo 2021, Blind met with the fair’s director, Florence Bourgeois, who tells us what makes this year’s edition worth your
Featuring a selection of images from the 1930s through the 1970s, an exhibition at Baudoin-Lebon gallery in Paris allows us to rediscover some landmark series in the career of the pioneering street photographer, Lisette Model.
I have a slightly dysfunctional relationship with my iPhone. It shows all the signs of codependency: I love that my iPhone is always there for
A new exhibition brings together 100 works made over the past two centuries to explore the ways women have shaped the development of photography.
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.
Native New York Godlis celebrates his hometown in a new book documenting alternately humorous, surreal, and poignant scenes of everyday life.
From the collection of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France to Gilles Favier, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and Lee Friedlander: four volumes in black-and-white to add to your library.
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 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.
Showcased by the gallery La Forest Divonne at the Paris Art Fair – online until the end of June – Elsa & Johanna have mastered the art of storytelling.
Until September 4, FOAM is showing the work of the American photographer Alex Prager. The exhibition offers an overview of her work, foregrounding elaborate mises-en-scène, technical sophistication, and a caustic look at the fetters of glamor.
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