Strolling Through Paris with Henri Cartier-Bresson

BOOK

Six Pictures: Strolling Through Paris with Henri Cartier-Bresson

A new book (and exhibition) looks at the master photographer’s relationship to Paris—the city he loved, left, and returned to again and again.

By Bill Shapiro

INTERVIEW

Christoph Wiesner: “Photography is About Storytelling”

The former director of Paris Photo is enjoying his first year as the head of the Rencontres d’Arles, in France. While the festival is focused this year on themes of identity and raises some topical issues, Christoph Wiesner shares candid thoughts on photography, its appeal, what it offers, and its usefulness.

By Jonas Cuénin

BOOK

Barkley L. Hendricks' Little Known Photography

A captivating new book celebrates the role photography played in the life and work of Barkley L. Hendricks, who made pioneering contributions to Black portraiture and conceptualism.

By Miss Rosen

BOOK

The FSA: The Unconscious of Roy Stryker

Photographer Jean-Christian Bourcart has assembled a selection of photographs discarded by the Farm Security Administration, the US agency created to aid poor farmers during the Great Depression. In 1937, the FSA hired several photographers — including Dorothea Lange and Walker Evans — to document the rural conditions.

By Jean-Christian Bourcart

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TUTORIAL

Shooting a Long-Term Documentary Project, by Kadir van Lohuizen

In this 4-chapter course, Kadir van Lohuizen, from NOOR, will give you his advice on producing a long-term documentary project. By NOOR Images

TUTORIAL

Shooting Architecture With a Hasselblad, by Bénédicte Kurzen

In this 4-chapter course, Bénédicte Kurzen, from NOOR, will give you her advice on photographing architecture in Lisbon, Portugal, with a Hasselblad film camera.By NOOR Images

FROM THE ARCHIVE

Best Regards, Gisèle Freund

They are the successors of Nadar, Karl Blossfeldt, Walter Benjamin. 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 conventional photography or bewitched by digital technologies. Today: Gisèle Freund and the emergence of literary space.

By Brigitte Ollier

Blind financially supports the production of visual stories and invites all photographers to submit their portfolios.

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