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billshapiro.bsky.social @billshapiro.bsky.social · 2d

Recently, I launched the BluePhoto Collective, a highly curated platform for buying incredible pictures for your walls…while helping photographers keep more money in their pockets. Here’s what’s new on BluePhoto.co: avani rai, Dave Green, anne Skoogfors.

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billshapiro.bsky.social @billshapiro.bsky.social · 12d

some News: “Todd Webb: Paris, A Love Story 1948-1952, a photobook I edited and wrote the text for, hits the shelves in two weeks. If you aren’t familiar with Webb’s quietly brilliant work, this is a great introduction. Paris never looked so good. Available from Damiani Books or @bookshop.org

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billshapiro.bsky.social @billshapiro.bsky.social · 17d

One of my all-time favorite photos (by the great @louisstettnerestate) goes up for auction on October 30 at the @leitz_photographica_auction along with other gems. Register here: www.leitz-auction.com/en/Photograp...

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billshapiro.bsky.social @billshapiro.bsky.social · 24d

Today on my IG feed, the heart-tugging work of Ghanaian photographer Carlos Idun-Tawiah. Carlos recreates images from his old family photo albums but also creates images from moments that he WISHED had happened but didn’t. It’s beautiful work. On display atParis Photo at the Galeria Alta booth.

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billshapiro.bsky.social @billshapiro.bsky.social · Sep 26

My favorite photo auction—the Leitz Photographica Auction—just dropped its online catalog and there are too many extraordinary images not to share.
Photos: Elliott Erwitt, Ernst Haas, & Will McBride
The auction: October 30 at 12:30pm EST.
Link to the catalog: www.leitz-auction.com/en/Photograp...

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billshapiro.bsky.social @billshapiro.bsky.social · Sep 26

Hes got an entire book of sled-dog photos!

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billshapiro.bsky.social @billshapiro.bsky.social · Sep 25

Go deep! So good!!

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billshapiro.bsky.social @billshapiro.bsky.social · Sep 25

Right??!!!

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billshapiro.bsky.social @billshapiro.bsky.social · Sep 25

I interviewed the great photographer Ragnar Axelsson, whose work I have been following for the last 20 years. The story appears on a just-launched, supremely ambitious, really cool site called The Photographic Index, and you can read it here: thephotographicindex.com/blog/the-man...

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billshapiro.bsky.social @billshapiro.bsky.social · Sep 19

Today on my IG feed, a few outstanding photographers whose work you might not have seen. Here, a small sample: Alex Harris, Anne Rearick, John Simmons. See the rest on @billshapiro

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billshapiro.bsky.social @billshapiro.bsky.social · Sep 15

I got a sneak peek at the photos you’ll be seeing at the upcoming Leitz Photographica Auction on October 30. A few more highlights here: www.leitz-auction.com/en/Photograp...
Photos by:
Inge Morath
Karin Szekessy
Berenice Abbott
@leitz_photographica_auction @leica_camera

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billshapiro.bsky.social @billshapiro.bsky.social · Sep 13

Today on BluePhoto.co, Jimmy Page and his buddy Jack Daniels in 1975. Picture by Neal Preston.

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billshapiro.bsky.social @billshapiro.bsky.social · Sep 10

Thanks a million. Something new!

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billshapiro.bsky.social @billshapiro.bsky.social · Sep 10

SOME NEWS. I’ve got a new project. It’s called BluePhoto.co.
We all know how unstable the photo world has become—galleries closing, Instagram chaos, the A.I. shitstorm, etc.—so we created the BluePhoto Collective, a site that values true photographic talent and honest-to-God curation.

home. | BluePhoto

home. https://www.bluephoto.co Fine Photography. Highly Curated. Fairly Priced. At BluePhoto, you’ll find super high-quality, limited-edition prints and collectible photo books from both big-name phot...

BluePhoto.co

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billshapiro.bsky.social @billshapiro.bsky.social · Aug 16

Thanks a million, mark!

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billshapiro.bsky.social @billshapiro.bsky.social · Aug 16

I was recently interviewed by @eyeshot_magazine about my years at LIFE, how I look at pictures, some of the common missteps I see, and a ton more. (They asked fantastic questions!) Take a look:

m.youtube.com/watch?v=rmhY...

Bill Shapiro on Life Magazine, Photo Editing & The Future of Photography | Eyeshot 50mm Ep. 16

YouTube video by Eyeshot Photos

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billshapiro.bsky.social @billshapiro.bsky.social · Jul 4

Send help.

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billshapiro.bsky.social @billshapiro.bsky.social · Jul 4

Today on my IG feed (@billshapiro), Russian photographer Nikolay Bakharev’s new book, “Cheryomushki,” from @stanleybarker.bsky.social

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billshapiro.bsky.social @billshapiro.bsky.social · Jun 13

Watch.

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · Jun 12

By now, we've all seen the video of Senator Alex Padilla (D-CA) being forcibly removed and handcuffed for asking a question during Kristi Noem's press conference.

But what Noem said just moments before the video was taken is "classic authoritarian red-baiting," points out @davidcorn.bsky.social.

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billshapiro.bsky.social @billshapiro.bsky.social · Jun 12

This is real.

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billshapiro.bsky.social @billshapiro.bsky.social · Jun 10

So far…breezy, shallow, entertaining, frustrating.

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billshapiro.bsky.social @billshapiro.bsky.social · Jun 9

The great Sly Stone has died. He was 82.
(Photo by Jim Marshall)

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billshapiro.bsky.social @billshapiro.bsky.social · Jun 9

I’m 100 pages in

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billshapiro.bsky.social @billshapiro.bsky.social · Jun 8

Photographer Alex Harris and I traveled through New Mexico to learn about the future of the state’s oldest and newest crops: chile peppers and cannabis. Our story for @newmexicomag is here: www.newmexicomagazine.org/blog/post/ne...

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billshapiro.bsky.social @billshapiro.bsky.social · Jun 7

Thank you, Mark!

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