2021 In Review

Blind writers and editors look back at the events, images, and stories that shaped the year.

FROM THE ARCHIVES

Nan Goldin on Forging Memories Through Photography

On the occasion of her new exhibition at Marian Goodman, the legendary artist talks about turning photographs into films, and how she keeps the past alive through her portraits.

By Christina Cacouris

FROM THE ARCHIVES

Sabine Weiss: A Century of Photography

Nearing 100, this last representative of French humanist photography, whose work is currently on view at Rencontres d'Arles festival, France, lifts the curtain on some of her darkroom secrets and shares her insights into photography today.

By Charlotte Jean

FROM THE ARCHIVES

Neil Leifer: The Wonders of Sport

Former editor-in-chief of 

L’Equipe Magazine

, now a gallery owner specialized in sports photography, Jean-Denis Walter writes a regular column for 

Blind

. This fourth installment is dedicated to one of his most illustrious unknowns.

By Jean-Denis Walter

FROM THE ARCHIVES

Christoph Wiesner: “Photography is About Storytelling”

The former director of Paris Photo is enjoying his first year as the head of the Rencontres d’Arles, in France, while the festival is focused this year on themes of identity and raises some topical issues.By Jonas Cuénin 

Six Pictures: Strolling Through Paris with Henri Cartier-Bresson

A new book (and exhibition) looks at the master photographer’s relationship to Paris—the city he loved, left, and returned to again and again.By Bill Shapiro

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Hiro, Celebrated Fashion Photographer, Dies at 90

Yasuhiro Wakabayashi, the Japanese-born American photographer known as Hiro died August 15, 2021, at the age of 90 in his country home in Erwinna, Pennsylvania

By Miss Rosen

FROM THE ARCHIVES

Edward Burtynsky: Tales of Water

Edward Burtynsky, whose work over the past thirty years has been focused on ecology, combines aesthetic and documentary approaches.

By Sophie Bernard

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Masahisa Fukase: The Cat’s Pajamas

The Japanese photographer, a self-proclaimed cat lover, subverts our vision of domestic felines by himself becoming a pussy cat in 

Sasuke

, published by Atelier EXB.

By Brigitte Ollier

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Martin Parr Times Fifteen

The English photographer Martin Parr has his first retrospective in Belgium: Parrathon looks back at a forty-year-long career through fifteen photography series.By Sabyl Ghoussoub 

The Thomas Walther Collection: The Advent of Photographic Modernity

The Jeu de Paume is showcasing the first exhibition in France devoted to the Thomas Walther Collection of photography, one of the pillars of MoMA’s modern collection.By Marie d'Harcourt

FROM THE ARCHIVES

Christopher Anderson: In the Name of the Son

Seven years after its first publication, Christopher Anderson’s book 

Son

 is available again in a new, expanded edition. This sensitive, sunny book revolves around the photographer’s son, Atlas.

By Laure Etienne

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