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Newsletter | Blind's Week: Handpicked Books For Christmas, Samuel Fosso, The Antarctic Explorers
Newsletter | Blind's Week: Handpicked Books For Christmas, Samuel Fosso, The Antarctic Explorers
- Photography at First Sight -
Week of December 17, 2020
EXHIBITION
In The Footsteps of Antarctic Explorers
Atlas Gallery in London exhibits images by the photographers Frank Hurley and Herbert Ponting, and the explorer Robert Falcon Scott, taken in the South Pole in 1911.
BOOK
Exploring Ideas of Black Masculinity Through Self Portraiture
Fifty years in the making, a new book explores identity, representation, and history in postcolonial Africa through the eyes of Nigerian photographer Samuel Fosso.
GIFTS
Handpicked Books For Christmas: Modern Icons
With Christmas just around the corner, we present a handpicked selection of photo books, focusing today on celebrities. These books reveal how photography has helped to turn stars into legends and forge new icons.
COLUMN
Tennis: A Great School of Photography
Former head of photography at the newspaper
L’Équipe
, now a gallery owner specializing in sport photography, Jean-Denis Walter serves up a new regular column at
Blind
with a first installment devoted to tennis photography.
GIFTS
Handpicked Books For Christmas: Distant Horizons
Africa, India, the United States, and many other destinations: we take you on a photographic trip around the world via four books by Peter Beard, Harry Gruyaert, Franco Fontana, and a group of around 40 photographers.
PORTFOLIO
Exploring the Connection Between Punk Music, Photography, and Graffiti
Punk and graffiti reunite for an extraordinary outpouring of art as famed street artists remake Janette Beckman’s iconic photos of England’s heady punk scene for “The Mashup 2,” a limited edition series of silkscreen prints.
TECHNOLOGY
How One Gallery Reinvents the Virtual Tour
While galleries, museums, and other cultural sites keep re-opening and closing because of the pandemic, the Thierry Bigaignon Gallery in Paris launches a whole new type of virtual tour, called the Interactive Video Tour. A tool offering a new level of interactivity.
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