2021 In Review

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

FROM THE ARCHIVES

Elliott Erwitt’s Rediscovered Photographs

The Magnum photographer’s latest book, 

Found Not Lost

, takes a deep dive into his photographic archive, revealing a new body of work for the first time.

By Christina Cacouris

FROM THE ARCHIVES

Best Regards, Henri Cartier-Bresson

They are the successors of Nadar, Paul Strand, Florence Henri... 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. The first in line: Henri Cartier-Bresson, the twentieth century’s most flamboyant picture snatcher…

By Brigitte Ollier

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Larry Fink’s Penetrating Portrait of Class in America

As he approaches his 80th birthday, American photographer Larry Fink looks back at his extraordinary journey through photography in conjunction with a new retrospective of his work opening in Cologne, Germany. 

By Miss Rosen

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Unseen Photographs from Robert Frank’s The Americans

Of the 28,000 images he took during this three-year period, a total of only 83 photographs were published in The Americans. Now, for the first time, a selection of those rarely seen and unpublished works are on view in a new exhibition at Danziger Gallery, titled Robert Frank—Rarities.By Christina Cacouris 

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. Today: Robert Frank, on the side of intuition.By Brigitte Ollier

FROM THE ARCHIVES

Introducing the Next Generation of Queer Image Makers

With the democratization of photography, LGBTQ artists around the globe are creating new visual languages to express their ideas of gender, sexuality, love, and lust.

By Miss Rosen

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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.

By Christina Cacouris

FROM THE ARCHIVES

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.

By Bill Shapiro

FROM THE ARCHIVES

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.By Laure Etienne 

Dawoud Bey: Inner Life

Newly released Street Portraits brings together Dawoud Bey’s portraits of African Americans taken between 1988 and 1991 in various towns around the US.By Brigitte Ollier

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