INSIDE THE FRAME – 1,369 light bulbs
In conjunction with the Jeff Wall exhibition at the George Economou Collection, Blind looks at an image by the Canadian photographer and master of staging and photographic reinterpretation.
Latin American image makers
In Latin America, women active in the world of photography are not just muses: they have created many of the works we have in front of us today. And yet, we are not sufficiently aware of their existence. We take a closer look at the lack of visibility and recognition of women in Latin American photography.
Thomas Sauvin: Salvaging Lost Images in China
Thomas Sauvin is one of the recurring names in today’s vernacular photography. This French artist and long-time resident of China has given new life to negatives found in a landfill in northern Beijing through daring exhibitions and publications. A sprawling project that enables viewers to discover photographs of anonymous people from the Middle Kingdom.
PORTFOLIO – Sakina Douiou, Just Between Boys
With the Boys series that she shot on film, the 17-year-old photographer captures the wandering moods of two friends of hers. One late afternoon in Marseille, under a setting sun…
David Goldblatt and The Book That Almost Never Was
David Goldblatt’s overlooked masterwork, Some Afrikaners Photographed, is set for re-release.
Documenting Immigration Under the Trump Regime
The exhibition Trump Revolution: Immigration, the first of a six-part year long series at the Bronx Documentary Center, brings together the work of photographers documenting the political and social impact of anti-immigration policy on both sides of the border.
EDITORIAL: On this day kicks off
In the wake of the humanist photographer Willy Ronis’s iconic series Ce jour là [On That Day], the editors of Blind is starting a new series of columns and have asked other artists to reveal the backstory to one of their photographs.
How-to: Concert Photography
Concerts often mean dark venues and tricky light conditions that can undermine the photos of concertgoers. Concert photography is therefore a very demanding art that requires adapting your equipment and settings. Here are our technical and practical concert photography tips to guide you, help you highlight your favorite musical artists and take amazing concert photos.
Tod Papageorge: Hooked on Acropolis
STANLEY/BARKER publishes a series of Tod Papageorge’s photographs made in 1983–84. In elegant shades of grey, the images show tourists wandering around the Acropolis of Athens, attesting to the contemplative power of the famous site.
COLUMN – Pay No Attention to That Country Behind the Curtain
Through the example of two recently published books, our columnist shows how photography can thwart the staging of authoritarian states.
The 2020 HSBC Prize: a Focus on Personal Worlds
The 25th edition of the photography competition awarded prizes to Charlotte Mano and Louise Honée, two women photographers who explore questions of identity and the future in their own way.
INSIDE THE FRAME – The labyrinth of time
On the occasion of an exhibition of Wright Morris’s work at FOAM, Amsterdam, Blind takes a closer look at one of his images. The exhibition borrows its title from one of the American writer and photographer’s most iconic series, The Home Place, in turn named after Morris’s family farm and portraying life in rural America in the late 1940s.
Eric Baratay: “Choupette symbolizes a trend taken to the extreme”
German photobooks publisher Steidl is releasing Choupette, a collection of photographs of Karl Lagerfeld’s cat, an animal that became famous for being the beneficiary of his master’s fortune. The German designer photographed his pet himself with his smartphone. Animal historian Eric Baratay analyzes the phenomenon.
Science in the service of photography
Steidl publishes a compilation of the most famous photographs by Harold Edgerton, a genius experimenter and inventor of the modern flash.
What did the Rio Carnival look like in the 50s and 60s?
In honor of the Rio de Janeiro Carnival this month, Blind has unearthed photos of Marcel Gautherot, one of the few photographers to have captured this event in the 1950s and in the 1960s.
Dana Lixenberg: America before 9/11
GRIMM Gallery in New York is featuring an exhibition of the Dutch photographer Dana Lixenberg. This great portraitist showcases a collection of her 1990s photographs of famous Americans: writers and intellectuals, rappers and visual artists, politicians and businesspeople. This is a sublime portrait of pre-9/11 America.
Clément Chéroux: “Defending photography by combining it with other art forms”
The French curator has just been appointed as head of the photography department at the New York MoMA, the most famous American institution dedicated to modern art. Until recently the head of the photography department at SFMoMA, he offers Blind a glimpse into his upcoming plans and the challenges he is facing.
PORTFOLIO – New York at Play by Pauline Deschamps
Shooting on film, the photographer has captured the varying vibes of recreational sports in New York, chronicling a parallel world to which city dwellers can escape, whether it’s to shoot hoops or swing a bat.
INSIDE THE FRAME – Ghost image
In conjunction with the exhibition De l’intime at the Galerie Les Douches, Blind looks at an image by the late writer and critic Hervé Guibert, a photographer with an always-mysterious sense of immediacy.
Martine Ravache: “No two people see alike”
In Regards paranoïaques, the art historian Martine Ravache reveals seven personal life-stories associated with different photographers. Her work allows us to think of photography at an age when the medium is enjoying unprecedented popularity. We talk with Martine Ravache.
How to Create a Photo Series?
Creating a photo series is a great way to illustrate a subject and enables many photographers to push their limits in terms of creativity, technique, and the way they think about their craft. In this article, we go over the various key aspects involved in making a photography series, from choosing your subject matter to organizing and selecting your images all the way through to post-production.
Julien Mauve: the Miracle and the Menace of Magma
The photographer shoots the many volcanoes in the Gulf of Naples in Italy and records the mixture of danger and celebration, of fears and beliefs, that points to ambivalence among the local population.
PORTFOLIO – Ingrid Dorner: Crossed memories
In her series EDIT, the artist probes her past by manipulating her grandmother’s negatives and her own production. She has created a ghostly, oneiric body of work that explores identity and memory.
Fotografiska New York: A new kind of photography museum
On December 14 of last year, New York celebrated the opening of a new space dedicated solely to photography. Showcasing some twenty exhibitions a year, Fotografiska has the ambition to become one of the city’s must-see cultural venues.
Ouka Leele: Grabbing Life by The Colors
Currently on view at Galerie Vu’ in Paris is a beautiful exhibit of the colorful and eccentric universe of Spanish painter-photographer Ouka Leele, a figure from La Movida Madrileña (the Madrid Scene). An opportunity to rediscover her most famous works as well as lesser-known prints.
INSIDE THE FRAME – A cinema kiss
On the occasion of the exhibition An Invented World at Galerie XII Los Angeles, Blind takes a closer look at one image by Paolo Ventura, a singular photographer whose work focuses on live-size dioramas and tableaux vivants.
The feverish aesthetics of Claudia Andujar
After a stopover in Brazil (see our article), the exhibition devoted to the work of Claudia Andujar traveled to Cartier Foundation in Paris. Blind takes the opportunity to analyze the photographer’s unique visual style.
Terri Weifenbach: Feathers and twigs
Until February 22, the Miranda Gallery in Paris is showcasing delicate winged creatures depicted by the American photographer Terri Weifenbach. We encounter this nature lover who, in her garden in Washington, DC, captures the fleeting passage of blackbirds, chickadees, and other city birds…
How to Create Still Life Photography
When we think of photography, we often think of moving subjects or stunning landscapes that grab our attention. However, Still Life Photography is gaining popularity and it comes in a wide variety. As with painting, it is above all a question of mastering the staging and the light, but in photography, it is also a question of providing your image with sharp clarity and accurate colors.
EDITORIAL – Getting along with images
At a time when the photo media are becoming increasingly rare and when gender issues have never been so strong, it is urgent not to forget that image can also unite us.
Remembering Bill Ray
The celebrated LIFE magazine photographer leaves behind iconic images of Marilyn, Elvis, JFK, and dozens of others who shaped the ‘50s and ‘60s. Our journalist knew him and has fond memories of him.
Laia Abril: The ingrained evil of “rape culture”
The young Barcelona-based artist presents the second segment of her project A History of Misogyny: On Rape. It is a powerful, poignant testimony to the violence suffered by women around the world and to the institutional responsibility for the crisis.
VIDEO – Interview with Christian Tasso
With his series Fifteen Percent, the photographer invents a way to represent disability around the world with portraits that capture the dignity of the person photographed. Interview with Christian Tasso.
INSIDE THE FRAME – A Good Foot, A Good Eye
In conjunction with the Self-portrait Polaroids exhibit on view at the Howard Yezerski Gallery, Blind zooms in on an image by the American artist John Coplans, known for tirelessly scrutinizing his own body via photographs.
A Chinese Photographer’s Paris Experience
In 2016, Feng Li mainly walked the streets of Chengdu, China. At the time, he was still alternating between his official job at the propaganda office in his province and his personal projects as an artist, namely a series called White Night, in which, for the past fifteen years or so, he has been photographing his chance encounters with his fellow man, whom he has the gift of capturing with his flash in attitudes that are, to say the least, surreal. Four years later, he left his official job, dabbled in fashion photography while still doing his street photography, and traveled to Paris on several different occasions, including a four-month residency that ends this month.
Joseph Sterling: A Swarming World
This little known American photographer (1936 – 2010) left behind a delicate body of work in which he tenderly recorded the movements of passers-by and the textures of cities. An exhibit of his work is currently on display at the Stephen Daiter Gallery in Chicago.
PORTFOLIO – Anita Scianò: Photographing female martyrs
In her series Agiografie, the Italian artist Anita Scianò constructs a narrative of the martyrdom of ten women sacrificed for their liberal opinions and independent thought.
Transgender in Argentina: Photos for survival
A documentary shows how photography has united the transgender community in Argentina and allowed them to proclaim their identity. Director Quentin Worthington sought out the guardians of these liberating and painful memories.
INSIDE THE FRAME – At it goes
On the occasion of the exhibition Arno Rafael Minkkinen: Fifty Years at the Edwynn Houk Gallery in New York, Blind takes a closer look at one image by the Finnish photographer whose work obsessively stages his nude body in nature.
Camera Settings: How to begin your camera setup?
Are you the proud owner of a new camera but unsure where to start, or even how to set it up? Here are some simple camera settings tips on how to navigate the menus and make your camera user friendly.
PORTFOLIO – Gaétan Vernier: A polar cruise
In the spring of 2019, the French photographer Gaétan Vernier took a cruise along the coast of Norway, from Bergen all the way to the polar circle. He came back with a singular series of portraits of the passengers and places visited on the way.
Pieter Hugo: Live from Mexico
A book published by Editorial RM and an exhibition at the Yossi Milo Gallery in New York show Pieter Hugo’s seminal encounter with Mexico.
Graciela Iturbide’s Captivating Mexico
The exhibition Cuando Habla La Luz at Monterrey’s Museum of Mexican History, a retrospective of the work of Mexican artist Graciela Iturbide, highlights the themes that have emerged consistently in her photography over the years.
INSIDE THE FRAME – Headless, yet embodied
On the occasion of the Francesca Woodman exhibition at the Robert Klein Gallery, Blind takes a closer look at one image by this American photographer who, in her short life, produced a body of work that poignantly examines self-representation.
COLUMN – We’re Still Getting Climate Change Photography Wrong
After decades of relying on photographs of polar bears and glaciers to illustrate climate change, some news outlets are correcting course. But visualizing the crisis isn’t simple, according to our columnist.
