Taiwan: Behind the Mirror
With its incredibly extensive inaugural exhibition, the new National Center for Photography and Images of Taipei demonstrates in 600 photographs how the island with its turbulent history has claimed ownership of its own image.
The Magic of Colonial Era Photography
Sarah Waiswa reinterprets the archive; how words and pictures can make people appear or disappear.
The Magazine Pushing the Boundaries of Gay Photography
BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! is back in a celebration of Pride, bringing together 10 photographers from around the world reimagining the possibilities of homoerotic art.
Trailblazing Publisher Katharine Graham’s Career in Photographs
A new show at the New York Historical Society showcases the former Washington Post editor’s ascent from the newsroom to Truman Capote’s Black and White Ball.
Michael Schmidt: A New German Perspective
The Jeu de Paume museum, in Paris, pays tribute to one of the most influential German photographers of the 20th century through a major retrospective, the first of its kind in France.
Sara Cwynar’s Multilayered Exploration of Beauty and Consumerism
In her book Glass Life, Sara Cwynar presents a feminist-inflected investigation of color, culture theory, and image-driven consumer culture.
Portraits by a Young Boy Who Later Became the Taliban’s Official Photographer
At just 11 years old, Khalid Hadi photographed 10,000 survivors of the decade-long Soviet-Afghan War.
Humanizing the United States’ Opioid Crisis
In New York, the Bronx Documentary Center’s latest exhibition reminds us that drug use is not an individual’s moral failing.
Best Regards, Gisèle Freund
They are the successors of Nadar, Karl Blossfeldt, Walter Benjamin. 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 conventional photography or bewitched by digital technologies. Today: Gisèle Freund and the emergence of literary space.
Extraordinary Voyages: Transportation in All Shapes and Sizes
Éditions Louis Vuitton and Atelier EXB take us on a journey around the world in fifty true stories and onboard as many means of transportation. The book teems with vintage photographs.
Three Ways of Looking at Russian Youth
What is it like being ten, twenty, or thirty in Russia? Blind has picked three young-generation, not to say new wave, photographers, who take on subjects such as national history, the disparities between rural and big-city cultures, as well as partying.
Revisiting “Minamata,” W. Eugene Smith’s Final Photo Series
The new film Minamata starring Johnny Depp explores the final chapter of Smith’s career. Here, his ex-wife Aileen Mioko Smith recounts their extraordinary work.
Stories of Trauma, Survival and Healing in the Dominican Community in America
Emily Sujay Sanchez uses the camera as a therapeutic tool to overcome the challenges she faces as a first generation Dominican American woman.
Joel Meyerowitz Revisits His 1983 Classic “Wild Flowers”
For nearly 60 years, Joel Meyerowitz has been drawn to the flower in its many splendored forms. Here he looks back at its role in his storied career.
Exploring Race and Masculinity in the United States
In his first book, Black Like Paul, Alex Christopher Williams presents an intimate portrait of intimacy and vulnerability through the lens of race and gender.
A Portrait of the New York Art Scene Just Before the Advent of AIDS
A new book and exhibition revisit downtown New York in 1981 and capture the face of a lost generation just before the pandemic struck.
Mexican Hotel Offers Shelter Against Domestic Violence
Photographer Gaia Squarci has documented her encounter with a Mexican woman who pressed charges against her ex-husband for rape. A poignant multimedia story.
Desert Storm: Kuwait’s Architectural Heritage
French photographer Jérome Poulalier documented the endangered heritage of this unsung country of the Persian Gulf.
Marc Riboud, Bearing Witness to the World
The retrospective exhibition of Marc Riboud’s work at the Guimet Museum in Paris reopened on May 19 and the accompanying catalog remains available. Here is a look back at the career of this globetrotting reporter from the days of black and white, whose work spans nearly six decades.
Chester Higgins, The Indelible Spirit
A new exhibition at the Bruce Silverstein Gallery, in New York, charts the early course of Chester Higgins’s journey from the late 1960s through the 1990s, with a selection of images that highlight his career.
Commuting Under the Divine Light
In his new book entitled Roosevelt Station, New York photographer David Rothenberg captures his subjects – commuters, airport-bound travelers, panhandlers, missionaries, and others – awash in the radiant, cathedral-like light of Jackson Heights–Roosevelt Avenue/74th Street train station’s concourse. These otherwise candid, rush-hour images assume an otherworldly theatrical guise.
The Innovative Achievements of Women Behind the Lens
A new exhibition brings together 100 works made over the past two centuries to explore the ways women have shaped the development of photography.
Portrait vs Landscape: Which Orientation to Choose?
The orientation of your image: portrait vs landscape (or vertical and horizontal) are the two main framing formats in photography. While their very names indicate how they are most often used, knowing how to orient your camera to highlight an element, accentuate a line or give more energy to an image is not always that easy. Here are some tips to help you make up your mind and choose between landscape vs portrait.
Imogen Cunningham: a Lifetime of Active Involvement
The publication of a book on Imogen Cunningham, which brings together nearly 200 of her photos, including previously unpublished ones, is an opportunity to rediscover the journey of this pioneer, feminist, pacifist and artist who was impossible to pigeonhole.
New Bern: The Portrait of a Small American Town
Over a period of fifteen years, Michael von Graffenried documented the daily life of New Bern, North Carolina. This long-term project, published this spring with Steidl, is on view May 19–20 at the newly opened Espace MVG in Paris.
After Us the Deluge: Images of Sinking Land
Dutch photographer Kadir van Lohuizen, a member of NOOR Images, has traveled around the world, meeting people who are already suffering the consequences of sea level rise. He publishes After Us the Deluge: The Human Consequences of Rising Sea Levels, an extensive, superbly documented photography project.
The Crack, a Shadow From the Past
It’s a search that began as a child who weekly left her home in the urban metropolis of Cairo; the weekly visit to my father’s home where my paternal grandparents lived. Every weekend I made the trek, filled with anticipation and idealism about my life there. This is my story. Between two homes. Between the past and present creating a crack in the memory of my memory.
Newly Discovered Images Shed Light on the “Green Ticket” Roundup of 1941
The Shoah Memorial in Paris has acquired a series of recently discovered photographs which show in detail the first mass arrest of Jews in Paris, organized during World War II by the French police at the initiative of the German authorities.
Six Pictures: Out West With Lora Webb Nichols
The editor of a remarkable — and remarkably beautiful — book explains how a photographer captured daily life in a small Wyoming town in a way few of us have ever seen.
Atget’s Paris in Sepia
The name Eugène Atget is synonymous with the Paris of yesteryear, the world of small trades and picturesque streets. The photographer’s oeuvre now is the core of a collaborative project that includes a book published by Atelier EXB, entitled Voir Paris and an exhibition at the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson in Paris.
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.
