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Nan Goldin, Looping Back, Looking Out
3+ day, 5+ hour ago (376+ words) Five black pavilions, designed by the architect Hala Ward, house her slideshows in the salon d'honneur of the Grand Palais. No path is imposed; one may as well enter by the beginning. "The Ballad of Sexual Dependency," initiated in the…...
Pascal Greco, Unframing Tokyo
3+ day, 6+ hour ago (195+ words) Tokyo Flash, his small volume co-published by Infolio, the Swiss Camera Museum and Chambre Noire, runs against the grain of this long-form, methodical work. Pascal Greco came back from the summer of 2025 with around a hundred images, shot on an…...
Joel Meyerowitz, Over Morandi's Shoulder " Blind Magazine
3+ day, 14+ hour ago (176+ words) Joel Meyerowitz, Over Morandi's Shoulder Blind Magazine Joel Meyerowitz, Over Morandi's Shoulder On the worktable, he can still make out the painter's pencil marks, where Morandi noted the exact placement of each object, the way a stage director sketches his…...
Sarah Moon: Instants Before Disappearance
4+ day, 6+ hour ago (195+ words) Blind Magazine Sarah Moon: Instants Before Disappearance A word on the Polaroid. Sarah Moon uses it the way others use silence, to frame what overflows. The frayed edges, the thick grain, the altered surfaces: so many marks of time on…...
Johny Pitts, Afropean Unhyphenated " Blind Magazine
6+ day, 5+ hour ago (188+ words) At Finsbury Park, he seizes the irony of a scene by framing a Black passer-by in front of the green storefront of the African Development Trust, a London-based charity turned toward Africa rather than toward the diaspora at its doorstep…...
Sandra Cattaneo Adorno Lets the Light Spill in Venice
6+ day, 2+ hour ago (272+ words) Blind Magazine Sandra Cattaneo Adorno Lets the Light Spill in Venice "Take a deep breath, Exhale, Drop your shoulders, Close your eyes." These four instructions that open the 61st Venice Biennale were chosen by curator Koyo Kouoh not as stage directions…...
Geography of Extraction " Blind Magazine
6+ day, 21+ hour ago (232+ words) Robin Bernstein's book Mapalakata takes readers to the South African province of Mpumalanga, a region that played an important early role in South Africa's extractive history. The work is set in South Africa's Mpumalanga province, along the mountain ridge bordering…...
Geography of Extraction
6+ day, 21+ hour ago (210+ words) Robin Bernstein's book Mapalakata takes readers to the South African province of Mpumalanga, a region that played an important early role in South Africa's extractive history. The work is set in South Africa's Mpumalanga province, along the mountain ridge bordering…...
Josef Koudelka: A Vagabond's Breviary
1+ week, 2+ day ago (414+ words) The cardinal rule he imposes on himself, hammered out in capitals throughout the text, is to keep himself unencumbered: "DON'T OWN ANYTHING; DON'T BUY ANYTHING. DON'T BE A MATERIALIST." For seventeen years, he followed the Gypsies across Europe, from Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer…...
Gilles Nicolet, A Poem to Africa — Blind Magazine
1+ week, 4+ day ago (29+ words) With Burnt Eyes, published by Skeleton Key Press, the French photographer signs his second African monograph. A visual poem traversed by the phantasmagorias of a continent that inhabits him....