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billshapiro.bsky.social @billshapiro.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Holiday Sale: The BluePhoto.co Collective is the place to buy incredible pictures while supporting photographers (who keep 85 percent of each sale.) For the holidays, most prints are between 10 and 25 percent off. Take a look!

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billshapiro.bsky.social @billshapiro.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Bill Owens worked for a small-town Bay Area newspaper in the ‘60s & ’70s when he noticed the rise of a particular culture taking shape in the California suburbs, as the two-car-garage types met with waves of the counterculture. Thrilled that Bill's work is now available for sale on Bluephoto.co.

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billshapiro.bsky.social @billshapiro.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

In which the Wall Street Journal selects BluePhoto.co for its exclusive holiday gift guide, calling it "A new source of curated, affordable images." The @wsj.com highlighted this photo by Clif Wright (which is available on BluePhoto starting at $100).

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billshapiro.bsky.social @billshapiro.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Fresh from Paris Photo: Extraordinary images by Marie-Laure de Decker, who died two years ago. Beauty and power and soul.

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billshapiro.bsky.social @billshapiro.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Personally, I don’t. The other way to look at it is that’s more inspiration than ever. But I do see a lot of folks doing a lot of the same things—better to focus on oneself and give IG a rest.

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billshapiro.bsky.social @billshapiro.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Tomorrow at 12:30 pm EST: The Leitz Photographica Auction Register Here: www.leitz-auction.com/en/Photograp... photos by: Joel Meyerowitz, Otto Steinert, Brassai

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billshapiro.bsky.social @billshapiro.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

We launched BluePhoto.co last month to help people find amazing images for their walls and help photographers keep more money in their pockets. It’s working. (We sold another photo this morning!) Today, we’re announcing BluePhoto gift cards, and as we head into the holidays, look for more offers.

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billshapiro.bsky.social @billshapiro.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

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 · 15/10/2025

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 · 10/10/2025

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 · 03/10/2025

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 · 26/09/2025

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 · 26/09/2025

Hes got an entire book of sled-dog photos!

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billshapiro.bsky.social @billshapiro.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

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 · 19/09/2025

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 · 15/09/2025

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 · 13/09/2025

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 · 10/09/2025

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.

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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...

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billshapiro.bsky.social @billshapiro.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

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...

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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 · 04/07/2025

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 · 10/06/2025

So far…breezy, shallow, entertaining, frustrating.

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billshapiro.bsky.social @billshapiro.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

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

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billshapiro.bsky.social @billshapiro.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

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 · 07/06/2025

Yipes! You are so right. I wonder how many others I get wrong in my mind’s eye. I just saw a Todd Webb of a boy and a baguette….or was it a garden hose?

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billshapiro.bsky.social @billshapiro.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

When my old friend Jonathan Gluck was diagnosed with cancer, he was given 18 months to live. That was 20 years ago. His book, "An Exercise in Uncertainty," is wise, moving, thoughtful, & funny. It's about living with the unpredictable—something we all do. Order here: bookshop.org/p/books/an-e...

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billshapiro.bsky.social @billshapiro.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Thanks so much for this. Love going deep on a photo like this of an icon like Ali.

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billshapiro.bsky.social @billshapiro.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

What a difference it makes! It’s one reason why a shot like this won’t come around for a very long time

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billshapiro.bsky.social @billshapiro.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

60 years ago today—on May 25, 1965—Neil Leifer made what is widely considered to be among the greatest sports photos of all time. One notable person doesn't agree: Neil Leifer. I spoke with Neil for the @nytimes.com ; below, more of Leifer's photos from that classic night

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The Greatest Sports Photo Ever Made Turns 60

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billshapiro.bsky.social @billshapiro.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

The celebrated Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado has died at 81. A huge loss & incredibly sad news. I was recently in CDMX and stumbled into a massive exhibition of his work at the Museum of Anthropology. Hundreds of people were looking, pausing, breathing in Salgado’s remarkable pictures.

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billshapiro.bsky.social @billshapiro.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Happy to announce that “Paris: A Love Story 1948-1952,” a photo book about the overlooked photographer Todd Webb, is available for pre-order. I edited the book, and poring over Webb’s stunning images was an honest joy. Here’s the link if you want to check it out: www.damianibooks.com/en/products/...

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billshapiro.bsky.social @billshapiro.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Thx so much for the note and glad you liked!

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billshapiro.bsky.social @billshapiro.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Podcast Alert: What makes a great landscape photo? What doesn’t? @unofphoto.bsky.social & I discuss, with insights from @kityoung135.bsky.social (the gorgeous black-and-white), Alex Harris (red car), and Geraint Smith (Rio Grande Gorge). Listen here: unitednationsofphotography.com/2025/05/07/p...

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billshapiro.bsky.social @billshapiro.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Saigon fell 50 years ago. These photos by the legendary Larry Burrows, who was killed in Laos while on assignment for LIFE.

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billshapiro.bsky.social @billshapiro.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Can rolling papers survive a world trending toward edibles? How many joints does Seth Rogen roll in a week? What does the inside of the Zig-Zag factory look like? I reveal all, right here:

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What’s Inside Your Rolling Paper?

Weed, obviously. But also a ton of innovation, some surprising ingredients, a dose of hucksterism—and a tradition on the verge of being extinguished.

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