Newsletter | Blind's Week : Alberto di Lenardo, Mary Ellen Mark, Jeff Mermelstein

See, read and understand the language of photographersObserve human beings, with compassion, tenderness or humor, and talk about them in pictures. This week, Blind invites you to discover different documentary approaches.

Recently discovered in an attic, 11,900 pictures taken by Alberto di Lenardo depict his native Italy with Kodachrome’s rich colors. Blind spoke with di Lenardo’s granddaughter who shined light on these magical photographs.

This month, German publisher Steidl is releasing an exceptional book on the career of American photographer Mary Ellen Mark. For 60 years, she has worked to highlight the richness of our cultures and the diversity of our society.

Jeff Mermelstein, Anthropologist of the Absurd

In his new book #nyc, Jeff Mermelstein takes a radical new approach to photography and abandons the pretense of art in favor of exploring complexities of the human mind in a series of new images made of anonymous cell phone text conversations.