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.
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.”
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 world. “This is a very special exhibition because it takes place on the thirtieth anniversary of his death,” explains Françoise Morin, the director of Les Douches la Galerie.
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 […]
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.
Inge Morath: For the Record
Successors to a suspended time, whose 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: Inge Morath, a woman of the world in love with the moment.
Annie Leibovitz: “A lot can be told in those moments in between the main moments”
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.
Florence Bourgeois: “A good fair is one that makes you want to come back”
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 while. How did you discover photography? Ever since I was little, I have visited all sorts of exhibitions in Paris or abroad. As far as photography is concerned, I was […]
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Vivian Maier
While in France the Musée du Luxembourg is devoting an exhibition to her, the first accomplished biography of Vivian Maier, penned by Ann Marks and published by Simon & Schuster, offers an intimate look at the life and work of Vivian Maier, revealing a darker side of the myth.
Hypnotic Portraiture and Psychedelia in Newly Discovered Kali
Filmmaker and writer. Matt Tyrnauer discusses the mythology behind the discovery of great art, and how Kali could come to be the next Vivian Maier.
Masterclass with Larry Fink
Larry Fink was born in Brooklyn in 1941 and died at his home in Pennsylvania on November 25, 2023. In the 1960s, he studied with Lisette Model, who encouraged him to become a professional photographer. He is best known for his series “Social Graces,” which explored social class in America in the 1970s by comparing […]
War, Sex, and Violence, Or Life According to Yan Morvan
With the project Yan Morvan Archives, Battcoop publishing takes a comprehensive look at the photojournalist’s work.
Masterclass with Donna Ferrato
Donna Ferrato is an American photojournalist known for her groundbreaking documentation of the hidden world of domestic violence. Her seminal book Living With the Enemy (Aperture, 1991) went into four printings and, alongside exhibitions and lectures across the globe, sparked a national discussion on sexual violence and women’s rights. In 2014, Ferrato launched the I Am Unbeatable campaign to expose, […]
Rediscovering Historic Photos of the Black Panther Party in 1960s Oakland
Jeffrey Henson Scales unearths never-before-seen photographs of the Black Power Movement.
Masterclass with Joel Meyerowitz
In partnership with Masters.of.Photography, Blind offers you free photography classes with great photographers. In the following video, join the legendary artist Joel Meyerowitz in Siena, Italy for a few tips on street photography. Meyerowitz shares his passion and infectious enthusiasm for creating incredible photographs, guides you through his photographic technique, and explains how to uncover […]
Masterclass with Albert Watson
In partnership with Masters.of.Photography, Blind offers you free photography classes with great photographers. In the following video, join the accomplished portraitist Albert Watson in his studio and learn how to interact with a model on a photoshoot, understand the geography of a face, and make improvements to your images. To watch the complete masterclass with Albert Watson, […]
Duane Michals on Bringing Music into Photography
It’s hard to pinpoint what precisely makes a Duane Michals image. With a prolific career, Michals’s oeuvre has ranged from portraits of Andy Warhol to images of Alaskan natives, with thousands upon hundreds of unseen images sitting in his archives, all ranging in function and form. Over the past year, Michals has engaged in an […]
Masterclass with David Yarrow
In partnership with Masters.of.Photography, Blind offers you free photography classes with great photographers. In the following video, join wildlife photographer David Yarrow and learn how he captures incredible images high in the Montana mountains, in the USA, and especially how he photographs cowboys and horses in extreme weather. To watch the complete masterclass with David Yarrow, please […]
Masterclass with Steve Mc Curry
In partnership with Masters.of.Photography, Blind offers you free photography classes with great photographers. In the following video, American photographer Steve Mc Curry teaches you about grasping spontaneous moments and opportunities to make the most of chance encounters. To watch the complete masterclass with Steve Mc Curry, please visit Masters.of.Photography.
