Newsletter | The Blind Week: 2020 HSBC Prize, Stephen Shames, Dana Lixenberg

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The ordeal of a mother, the joy of a youth without money, the unvarnished face of celebrities... Blind is celebrating a photograph of intimacy this week.

AWARD 

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.

EXHIBITION

Best known for his work on the Black Panthers, Stephen Shames spent the 1970s and 80s photographing children and youth anywhere from Vancouver to Chicago to New York. The Parisian Esther Woerdehoff Gallery presents a stunning retrospective of Shames’s work.

INTERVIEW

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.

INTERVIEW 

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. 

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.

Blind's goal is to support photographic creation and invites all photographers to submit their portfolios. Send them to us at the following address: [email protected]