image by Mike Disfarmer Bonnie Dell Gardner,1943 The name of this unshaved man with the jug ears was Meyer until he decided, that he was thrown by accident into a family foreign to him. The Meyers were of german origin, a “Meier” being a farmer, so Mike Meyer, because he wasn´t a farmer, called himself “Disfarmer.” In a little Arkansas town in the middle of nowhere, Mike [...]
image by August Sander Blinde Kinder. Düren, ca. 1930/31 Blind children
image by August Sander Bauernkinder, 1927 Farm children August Sander book was one of the first ones I bought, back in 1980. I didn´t know then, that I would be studying photography later on, neither did I know that I would take up portrait photography myself. August Sander was born in 1876 and died in the year of 1964. I was four then. [...]
image by Jitka Hanzlova Rokytnik, 1990-1994 Jitka Hanzlova and I studied both in Essen. She began her studies a few years later than I did. Of course we got to know each other. Anyway: as I went back to my childhood roots with my first project (remembering 1987-1993), so did Jitka Hanzlova too. But differently. While she went back to [...]
Judith Joy Ross protagonists are as everyday and as special as we all are.
Economic news were a utterly devastating last year. Bankers gambling, betraying customers, burning money, being rich and becoming even richer. Nothing is ever changing. The poor are paying for the mistakes of the wealthy. Ai Weiwei´s Munich exhibition “so sorry” shows the work of an exceptional artist. Exceptional not only because of his art, exceptional also [...]
image by Diane Arbus, New York 1965 I never wanted to make a post about Diane Arbus. Publishing her images is like showing Picasso´s paintings in those endlessly repeated exhibitions everybody loves to go, even those who are punished with blindness. Still, here are some images by her for you and me to see. I just feel like it.
Izima Kaorus landscapes with a corpse have nothing to do with death.Women dressed in “haute couture”, spread out decoratively, anonymous colored spots amidst of impressive scenery, their faces turned upside down blocking our attempts to feel some empathy. These images provoke as much thought or emotion as pretty flowers on a wallpaper.
Maybe Abelardo Morell is simply an intellectual pondering about the world of signs with the assistance of his camera. That’s what his work essentially is all about.
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