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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.

•  Six Pictures: Gordon Parks’ Cinematic Style
•  The Infinite Present: Shooting One Film Photograph Every Day
•  Sports Photography: an Art in its Own Right
•  Discovering Sudanese Photography
•  Here is New York: A Democracy of Photographs
•  Six Pictures: Life Magazine’s Ed Clark
•  Rivka Katvan: Timeless New York
•  Inside George Brown’s Bar
•  More Popular Than Jesus?
•  Jacques Henri Lartigue: a photographer at play

Six Pictures: Gordon Parks’ Cinematic Style

An exhibition looked at how the legendary photographer used a filmmaker’s eye to make memorable documentary images.

By Bill Shapiro

The Infinite Present: Shooting One Film Photograph Every Day

What started as a gift from a friend became a daily experiment. Photographer B.A. Van Sise shares with us the story of three years of street photography.

By B.A. Van Sise

Sports Photography: an Art in its Own Right

On October 9, 2020 the sports daily L’Equipe was putting up a century’s worth of photos for auction at the Parisian auction house Drouot. Representing every athletic discipline, some of these images have become icons. The newspaper’s photo editor shares the epic story of sports photography.

By Michael Naulin

Discovering Sudanese Photography

Destination Sudan, accompanied by photographer Claude Iverné, who in 2005 founded, a not-for-profit that is both a photo agency and a library with a collection of more than 20,000 photos, books, films, and other documents . Objective: the conservation and dissemination of this little-known chapter in the history of African photography.

By Sophie Bernard

Here is New York: A Democracy of Photographs

On the 20th anniversary of the attack on New York’s Twin Towers, we revisited Here is New York: A Democracy of Photographs, the first crowd-sourced exhibition of its scale dedicated to images of 9/11 and its aftermath, with thousands of photographers—amateur and professional alike—exhibited together. Here’s how it happened.

By Christina Cacouris

Six Pictures: Life Magazine’s Ed Clark

Celebrated photo historian and former Senior Photography Curator at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Kansas City) goes deep on six key images from his new book about one of Life magazine’s most prolific—and least-known—photographers.

By Bill Shapiro

Rivka Katvan: Timeless New York

The photographer Rivka S. Katvan has made a name for herself by capturing backstage Broadway. But it’s not just actors she photographs: her street shots reveal New York City’s lively poetry.

By Joy Majdalani

Fishing Demystified: The Story of a Craft

In partnership with the NGO Marine Stewardship Council (MSC), which fights overfishing, photojournalist Théo Giacometti spent several weeks with bluefin tuna fishermen in the Mediterranean. The result are portraits of men who defend respectful, artisanal fishing.

By Michaël Naulin

A Celebration of Los Angeles Street Culture

Over the past decade, Sean Maung has traveled across his hometown, photographing the people who give it style and substance.

By Miss Rosen

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