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The Best of Blind
Once a month, Blind invites you to delve into its archives. It's a chance to (re)discover memorable and often timeless articles and images.
JONAS CUENIN
July 25, 2024
Thursday July 25, 2024
Once a month, Blind invites you to delve into its archives. It's a chance to (re)discover memorable and often timeless articles and images.
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• Never-Before-Seen Video of Robert Frank
• Exploring the Magical World of Broadway’s Backstage
• Clara Belleville: Shared Intimacy
• A summer in Europe with Sergio Purtell
• The Forgotten People of Appalachia
• Exploring the Nude Through an Expansive Gaze
• The Day Bob Dylan Became Bob Dylan
• Can You Swim?
• A History of Earth Seen From Space
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Recently unearthed footage from nearly 40 years ago shows the great photographer talking about honesty and cruelty in photography—and in The Americans. Special for Blind readers.
By Bill Shapiro
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Rivka S. Katvan has spent more than thirty years roaming the backstage areas of Broadway’s most famous theaters and taken stunning shots of stars such as Julie Andrews and Elizabeth Taylor as they got ready to go on stage. An impressive body of work that will delight lovers of dramatic art.
By Joy Majdalani
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In her first book, Entre nous, in which almost nothing happens, Clara Belleville turns her lens to young people idling away their summer. She offers a heliotropic version of dolce vita.
By Brigitte Ollier
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Published against all odds, Sergio Purtell’s book Love’s Labour is an infinite, timeless ode to summertime Europe. The American photographer reveals a series of captivating, sun-filled photographs, beautifully edited nearly forty years later.
By Anne Laurens
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For over 40 years, photographer Shelby Lee Adams has traveled the mountain of Eastern Kentucky to photograph. Now in his 70's, Adams has been exploring his archive of unpublished work to see what may have been overlooked. His new book, From the Heads of the Hollers, contains 90 of these unpublished photographs, portraying the culture and people of Appalachia.
By Robert E. Gerhardt
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An exhibition brings together the work of 30 female-identifying artists from 20 countries to reimagine the nude liberated from the gender binary.
By Miss Rosen
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American photographer Rowland Scherman photographed many of the iconic musical, cultural, and political events of the 1960s, including the Beatles’ first US concert, and Woodstock. In 1963, he covered the Newport Folk Festival, where musician Bob Dylan appeared for the first time, on stage with Joan Baez.
By Rowland Scherman
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Red Cross: A Story in Objects
The book “Humanity” by photographer Henry Leutwyler is a testament to the Red Cross’ historical role in delivering medical and community support, particularly for poor and underprivileged citizens around the world.
By Henry Leutwyler
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When the sun makes its rays dance, Antoine Henault captures its shining perceptions. An invitation to travel, his work Insolations transports us into a hypnotizing visual universe.
Photographs by Antoine Henault
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Inspired by the devoted practice of Tibetan Buddhism they encountered in the villagers they met on their first trek to Nepal in 1981, photographer William Frej and his wife Anne Frej set out on a quest to document Asia’s highest peaks. A chronicle of their 40 years of Himalayan journeys is now available in a new book entitled Travels Across the Roof of the World.
By Anne & William Frej
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