ON THAT DAY, or Claude Nori’s love at first sight
With On That Day, photographers are invited to tell the story behind one of their photographs. Today, Claude Nori and a famous photograph taken one day in November 1995…
Stephen Shames, children & youth
Best known for his work on the Black Panthers, Stephen Shames spent the 1970s and 80s photographing children and youth anywhere from Vancouver to Chicago to New York. The Parisian Esther Woerdehoff Gallery presents a stunning retrospective of Shames’s work.
Must we stop taking pictures to save the planet?
Photography, even—or especially—when it deals with environmental issues, leaves a greater ecological footprint than we might think. Every technique comes with its own set of problems: while digital photography implies built-in obsolescence, silver-based film entails toxic waste. As we confront a climate crisis, is there such a thing as eco-friendly photography? Three photographers address the question.
A celebration of LIFE
Atlas Gallery’s latest exhibition in London, ‘LIFE: Selected Prints from the LIFE Magazine Collection (1936-2000)’, commemorates the first American photographic news magazine.
Every photo purchase pays for 400 meals for the poor
Established last December, the Photo4food Foundation supports organizations fighting malnutrition and poverty thanks to sales of works of photography donated by artists. This remarkable initiative weds creativity and generosity, photography and social commitment. We talk with Virginie Goy, a co-founder of the Foundation. How would you briefly describe the purpose of the foundation? The Foundation […]
Christmas: a few original ideas
Photography classes, unique prints, coffee table books, and more. Here is a selection of great and original gift ideas at various prices for photography enthusiasts. The coolest Give someone a stenoflex. This ready-made kit allows you to take pinhole photographs, using the oldest techniques, from a simple box pierced with a tiny hole. Amazing, timeless […]
Man Ray’s Mother-of-Pearl Faces
Blind presents a survey of Man Ray’s photographic work in the world of fashion in the mid-1920s, including a beautiful gallery of muses.
Peter Hujar: Multiplying connections
In his portraits of family, friends, and lovers, American Peter Hujar’s (1934–1987) has spun an authentic, vibrant web of intimate relations. A major exhibition at the Jeu de Paume in Paris celebrates the photographer’s work.
The Photaumnales photography festival: when Planet Earth weeps
The festival, which takes place in northern France, chose anthropocene as its theme this year, i.e. the age when human activity began to have a significant impact on our planet’s ecosystem; images that can be violent at times and that take a hard look at our actions.
Vincent Fournier’s spatial utopia
For over ten years Vincent Fournier has been traveling to sites around the world related to space exploration in search of astonishing shots: space suits, control rooms, simulations… This panoply of images that showing a world unto itself is on display in Los Angeles.
Death of Jill Freedman, a bohemian at heart
The American street photographer died yesterday at the age of 79. Blind pays tribute to this eternal observer of the world by republishing this profile who appeared in Camera magazine in 2015.
The little monsters of the deep
Photographs of larval fish are on display at the Jardin des Plantes in Paris. It’s an opportunity to see up close these curious creatures with extraterrestrial forms. They have enormous, bulging eyes, immense fins, and spines all over their bodies… The fish larvae photographed by Nalani Schnell, a researcher at the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, […]
Seeing Science, the long complicity between photo and science
Recently published by Aperture, the book “Seeing Science: How Photography Reveals the Universe” offers a broad survey into the role of photography in the evolution of science.
