Tag Archives: August Sander

guess whose coming to dinner?

Posted on January 23, 2012 by Dave

Does our modern society indicative of a lowering of human freedom and a degradation of the environment or does our science charged culture represent an emancipation from primitive conflict and ignorance? … From an article on researching authenticity and populism. … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Alice Miller, August Sander, cannibalism, James Hilton, Jared Diamond, Jean Jacques Rousseau, John Verelst, Lawrence H. Keeley, Lord of the Flies, margaret bourke-white, Nicholas Wade, Sigmund Freud, Steven Pinker, Thomas Hobbes, William Golding | Leave a comment

relating to the THIRD

Posted on December 23, 2011 by Dave

Relating to the other. It sounds like a great idea. We are depersonalized and the concept of the face to face as opposed to human relationships seen through attempts to conceptualize the totality of being has a certain intuitive appeal … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged August Sander, Baruch Spinoza, Carolee Schneemann, Christopher Hitchens, emmanuel levinas, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Harold Bloom, irina ionesco, joel-peter witkin, Nicolas Poussin, schelling, william gedney, zizek | Leave a comment

people in glass cases

Posted on November 2, 2011 by Dave

Call it an archiving of the human inventory of the ghetto. An accounting before sealing the doors shut and flipping the switch. August Sander. It was the new scientific method of photography. The subject as an anatomical study of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged alan trachtenberg, Albrecht Durer, August Sander, Charles Darwin, Gerhard Richter, Helen Levitt photography, John Berger, kurt tucholsky, Max Ernst, Sigmund Freud, Stendhal, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

WEIMAR AND THE VIOLENCE OF AMNESIA: Trope of a Troubled Burial

Posted on December 1, 2010 by Dave

Accusations of elitism, populous slanders of the word as pejorative have been unleashed as aprt of the American cultural landscape in this season of discontent. Can we take lessons form the Weimar Republic? The right wing tone of academia in … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Albert Birkle, August Sander, Charles Baudelaire, Dostoyevsky, Ernst Junger, Georges Bataille, Hegel Philosopher, Herbert von Reyl-Hanisch, Irving Wohlfahrt, Jay Winter, Jeanne Mammen, Martin Buber, Oskar Kokoschka, Pierre Missac, Stefan George, Stephane Moses, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

DOUBLE EXPOSURE: Visual Fiction of the Personal Gaze

Posted on November 25, 2010 by Dave

Most of Mario Varga Llosa’s novels are set in Peru. From his first works, Vargas Llosa has used a wide variety of avant-garde techniques to create an aesthetic “double of the real world.”; a subtle line between narrative form and … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc. | Tagged Alicia Borinsky, Amanda Hopkinson, Arthur Penn, August Sander, Baldomero Alejos, Edward Ranney, Frantz Fanon, Jacques Lacan, Javier Silva-Meinel, Jean Paul Sartre, Marcelo Guimalaes Lima, Mario Vargas Llosa, Mark Power, Martin Chambi, Rene Prieto, Roland Barthes, Sartre Being and Nothingness | Leave a comment

SOCIAL CLASS THEORY: Breaking Through the Skin of Human Culture

Posted on November 22, 2010 by Dave

August Sander photographed German citizens from all classes and walks of life. Rich, poor, men, women, revolutionaries, artists, tramps, professionals, children, laborers, Communists, Social Democrats, Anglo Saxons, Gypsies,Nazis and Negroes stood or sat squarely in front of his camera, fully … Continue reading →