Revisiting “Project X”, New York’s Iconic ‘90s Nightlife Magazine
Photographer Rafael Fuchs reflects on his early work shooting fashion for the cult nightlife zine that captured the magic and madness of the club scene.
Restoring a Forgotten Chapter of Modern Photography History
In her final exhibition for the Museum of Modern Art, curator Sarah Meister explores the work of a highly influential group of Brazilian amateur photographers.
Shafiqul Islam Kajol: Photographing Bangladesh Through Turbulent Times
Last year, after an almost 30-year career as a photojournalist and editor, Shafiqul Islam Kajol has been charged under Bangladesh’s Digital Security Act for social media posts that are critical of his government. The price he has paid to reveal the truth is staggering. The CCTV footage shows Shafiqul Kajol, a Bangladeshi photojournalist, pulling up […]
Hélène’s Journeys Far and Wide
While journalists and publishers are familiar with the Roger-Viollet Agency, a new exhibition now allows everyone to learn that Hélène Roger-Viollet, the woman who founded the agency 83 years ago, was also a photographer. She had set out to document the world.
A Disturbing Look at Modern Consumerism
Daniel Stier’s latest book portraits the city as an accumulation of capital and goods, a metabolic system of buying and selling, a place of constant construction and destruction.
Carlota Guerrero’s Kaleidoscopic Vision of the Divine Feminine
Collecting a decade of work, Carlota Guerrero’s first monograph is a majestic celebration of the mesmerizing power of the spirit made flesh.
Zanele Muholi’s Self-Portraits as Visual Weapons
In anticipation of the 2022 exhibition at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie, in Paris, French publisher Éditions delpire & co has gathered 96 self-portraits by Zanele Muholi under a book titled Somnyama Ngonyama – Hail the Dark Lioness, in which the South African who defines herself as a visual activist exposes stereotypes of the representation of Black culture.
Print For Crisis: United for Myanmar
Support Myanmar with one photograph. Many prints by renowned photographers available at an affordable price on printforcrisis.org.
Susan Kandel’s Domestic Worlds
Shooting for a decade in various homes in Massachusetts, Susan Kandel found whole universes opening up behind every front door she entered. Her new book, At Home, records family life in all its messy, multifarious glory.
Disco Nights, Strip Clubs & Punk Bars: Meryl Meisler’s New York in the 1970s
Meryl Meisler revisits the start of her photography career when she moved to New York and reveled in the pleasures of the city’s decadent nightlife scene.
From the Edge of Independent Wrestling Rings
Professional wrestling has been a mainstay in Pittsburgh for more than a century. The first reference to matches in the region dates back to 1860. Photographer David Aschkenas has dedicated a long project to it.
John Myers, Everyday Magic
Working from 1972 until 1988, English photographer John Myers produced a fascinating body of work by focussing on the humdrum, the boring, and the overlooked. His images then laid forgotten until a chance discovery in 2011, and are now being published in one book covering his whole work for the first time.
Best Regards, Robert Frank
They are the successors of Wright Morris, Walker Evans, Jakob Tuggener… 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: Robert Frank, on the side of intuition.
Magnum Photos Presents “Storytelling For Impact,” an Online Seminar
In a new four-part webinar, Magnum Photos brings together Colby Deal, Jim Goldberg, and Rafal Milach along with advocates, leaders, and grant-makers to help photographers in the fight for social change.
The Female Gaze: Challenging the Dynamics of the Artist-Muse Relationship
In her first museum exhibition, Chinese artist Pixy Liao deconstructs, subverts, and reimagines the gender dynamics of the traditional heterosexual relationship.
Duane Michals Unlocks his Andy Warhol Archive
Here’s Andy Warhol’s ear. Here’s Andy Warhol’s eye. Here’s his chin. Here’s his hair. Duane Michals, who knew Andy since his days as an illustrator at iconic New York department store Bonwit Teller, has documented every inch of Andy Warhol, even blowing up portraits into extreme close-ups to show each of his features. As Michals […]
Celebrating the Glamour of the Golden Age of Air Travel
In the new book Come Fly With Me, author Jodi Peckman shares iconic paparazzi shots of the jet set from the 1950s through today.
Getting Up and Catching the Wave
The French aquatic photographer Laurent Masurel has a book coming out titled Line-Up, a seminal work on waves and surfing.
Is This the World We Created?
Describing and portraying today’s world in pictures: that, in a nutshell, describes the exhibition “Civilization – What an era!” presented at the MUCEM in Marseille, France. An opportunity to explore photographic art from the past twenty years and to reflect on the world around us.
Meet the Climate Heroes
First a documentary series, then an association, for over ten years Climate Heroes has been giving a face and a voice to some of the true saviors of the planet, those who work day by day to halt climate change. Thanks to crowdfunding, a forthcoming photo book published by Hemeria is slated to complement this project.
From Russia With Love: The Making of Women Street Photographers
Gulnara Samoilova explores how her formative years in Soviet-era Bashkortostan shaped her, the artist and visionary behind a new book entitled Women Street Photographers.
Gerry Cranham: a Life Devoted to Sports Photography
Former editor in chief at the newspaper L’Equipe Magazine, turned gallery owner specializing in sports photography, Jean-Denis Walter writes a regular column for Blind. His third essay is devoted to one of the most important photographer of the genre.
How Photography Changed the Essence of Fashion Magazines
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 bringing us back to it. Granted, the mainstream magazines of late have largely foregone artistic innovation in favor of pure celebrity worship. It wasn’t always like this, though: looking back […]
Inside New York’s Radical Punx of Color Scene
In her first book, Destiny Mata revisits the New York’s avant garde punk scene over the past decade.
World Press Photo: the Shocking Images of 2020
The results of the 64th edition of World Press Photo were announced on April 15. Six nominees were in the running for the prestigious and coveted world photo of the year. The World Press Photo of the Year was awarded to Mads Nissen for his photograph of a hug between a nurse and an old lady during the covid pandemic, in São Paulo, Brazil. Blind looks back at the year 2020 marked by Covid, the Black Lives Matter movement, and the war in Nagorno-Karabakh, among others.
Fabio Ponzio: East of Nowhere
An eyewitness to the fall of Communist regimes in Europe, the photographer Fabio Ponzio publishes his photographs covering twenty-two years spent in the East.
Bruce Gilden: “It Doesn’t Have to Be Perfect, It’s Organized Chaos”
In December 2019, Bruce Gilden frequented one of Palermo’s most typical markets, Ballarò, for about a week. Attracted by the genuine rough faces of its vendors and buyers he spent hours strolling its narrow streets.
June Newton, Portrait Photographer Also Known as Alice Springs, Dies at 97
Remembering art director, curator, and portraitist June Newton, whose photography career began one day in 1970 when her husband Helmut fell ill with the flu and sent her in his stead.
Hassan Hajjaj’s Colorful Cabinet of Rock Stars and Fashionistas
Hailing from the fishing town of Larache on the northwest coast of Morocco, photographer Hassan Hajjaj was born in 1961 — just five years after the country achieved independence. Throughout the ‘60s, the African Independence Movement swept the continent, restoring a feeling of pride to the peoples whose lives and land had been unjustly usurped by foreign […]
When Broadway Does its Striptease for a Good Cause
Rivka S. Katvan captures backstage Broadway like no one else. In 1987, she put her photographic talent in the service of a good cause, joining forces with Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, an organization fighting against HIV. This collaboration has resulted in a series of striking photos that embody the magic of the American burlesque stage.
Duane Michals on Opening his Archive and Unseen Pictures of Alaska
In 1966, Duane Michals got on a plane bound for Alaska. What was supposed to be a short trip on an assignment for Esquire photographing the Alaska Natives, ended up being a three-week stay, with temperatures so low that it was impossible to ever get warm. A few photos from this trip were published in an article […]
A Poignant Reminder of the Incalculable Cost of War
Magnum Photos member Peter van Agtmael offers a deeply disconcerting look at the dissonance between violence, spectacle, and perception in his latest book, Sorry for the War.
An Intimate Portrait of Boyhood Friends, Then and Now
In The Boys, Rick Schatzberg pairs snapshots from the 1970s with portraits made today, looking back at a group of childhood friends at the brink of old age.
Revisiting the Bustling Streets of New York
Over the last seven years, Melissa O’Shaughnessy has photographed daily on the streets of New York. Woven into her cast of characters are the lonely, the soulful, and the proud.
Mona Kuhn’s Universal Figures
Over a career spanning more than twenty years, Mona Kuhn’s underlying theme has always been humanity’s longing for spiritual connection and solidarity. She is renowned for developing close relationships with her subjects, resulting in images of remarkable intimacy. The new book Mona Kuhn: Works is her first retrospective.
A Portrait of Disenchanted Youth Flocking to Haight-Asbury in the 1960s
Fifty years in the making, William Gedney’s chronicle of the early San Francisco hippie scene has finally been published, offering an unvarnished look at the roots of the legendary 1960s counterculture.
The Inuit in the Light of Day
Published by the Lumière des Roses Gallery, the catalog Inuit features early twentieth-century portraits from the archive of the writer-journalist Victor Forbin.
Peter van Agtmael Chronicles the Frontlines of War in the 21st Century
Magnum Photos member Peter van Agtmael shares his journey as a conflict photographer, and the importance of adopting an open, questioning approach to photojournalism.
LA’s Latino LGBTQ Scene in the 1980s and ‘90s
In a new book, Reynaldo Rivera looks back at his formative years growing up in Los Angeles before gentrification turned the lights on the “City of Night.”
Shisei Kuwabara: Minamata Disease, and the Poisoning of a Town
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.
Mark Power: “America continues to enthrall and to disappoint in equal measure”
In 2012, Mark Power embarked on an ambition journey: Good Morning America, a visual narrative of the United States, spanning over five books and ten years. One way to undertake such a project would be to follow thematic or geographical patterns, but the British photographer refuses to cluster his photos along these lines, inviting us instead on an unpredictable ride […]
Photographing cherry blossoms
Cherry trees are special and beloved for the beautiful pink flowers they sprout when they’re in bloom. So much so that it is a much anticipated national event in Japan by both locals and tourists. It’s a very short time period, however, usually beginning in late March and ending in early April (one to two weeks in all).
In just a few days, the flowers fully bloom and then fall to the ground to make way for a new cycle. Here are a few tips to help get you ready for cherry blossom photography and capture this incredible and fleeting phenomenon that heralds the arrival of spring.
Celebrating Mary Ellen Mark’s Poignant Portrait of Girlhood
A new exhibition explores how, aside from her projects, Mary Ellen Mark documented the lives of young women and girls around the globe over half a century.
A 30-Year Odyssey Documenting Lives of Girlfriends Coming of Age
In the new book Between Girls, Karen Marshall explores gender, identity, self-discovery and friendship between women in photographs, film, and audio recordings.
Celebrating the Unpredictability of Life with Magnum’s Print Sale
Entitled “The Unexpected”, a collection of more than ninety prints by Magnum photographers is available for $100 for one week. It represents the breadth and variety of what photography can convey and capture.
