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Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
POUGHKEEPSIE, NY.- While the Facebook social networking website has proven to be enormously popular, linking millions of photographs of faces to searchable biographical data, the notion of collecting and cataloguing pictures of people is not a new one. In the 1920s August Sander created a typological catalogue of more than six hundred photographs of German people from all walks of life, in his monumental...
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The World's Fair (Free subscription) | 04/29/2008
Preface | Pt. 1 | Pt. 2 | Pt. 3 | (Sidebar 1) | Pt. 4 | Pt. 5 Pt. 6 | Pt. 7 | (Sidebar 2a) | (Sidebar 2b) | Pt. 8 | Part 9 Richard Powers, in his debut novel Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance , constructs a story about the identity of the three farmers in August Sander's 1914 photograph of that name. The novel takes on not just the three farmers, but three storylines too. The many characters in...
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Sara Ryan (Free subscription) | 04/19/2008
and found the Fraenkel Gallery . Fell in. So many gorgeous, haunting images. So many stories. This is the one I was looking for – doesn’t it look oddly like she has an iPod? Originally published at sararyan.com . You can comment here or there .
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London Review of Books (Free subscription) | 04/16/2008
This concentration on pattern-making suggests that the accusation of ‘bourgeois formalism’ levelled at Rodchenko by those who wanted socially uplifting imagery was – as far as ‘formalism’ went – fair enough. In other countries photographers have angered their contemporaries more often by pointing their cameras at the wrong people and places than by abstraction. From August Sander’s portraits of German...
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Today's Tribune-Review (Free subscription) | 04/15/2008
August Sander's favorite college basketball team, Temple, was eliminated early from this year's NCAA Tournament.
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gmtPlus9 (-15) (Free subscription) | 04/02/2008
August Sander... Middle-class Children (1925, Gelatin Silver Print, 20" x 24"). From the exhibition August Sander: People of the 20th Century at Weinstein Gallery in Minneapolis, MN. "...Sander’s acclaimed project People of the 20th Century, which he began in the early 1920s, was a series of portraits that aimed to exhaustively document German society. He photographed subjects from all ranks of society,...
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City Pages - Culture To Go (Free subscription) | 03/13/2008
Don't miss the August Sander exhibit at the Weinstein Gallery. All those incredibly strange and almost mythical people: the bricklayer, the gypsy, the painter, and the painter's wife...If you stare at them long enough, I swear you can see them drawing breath and even blinking.
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PARIS /moleskinecity.com (Free subscription) | 02/19/2008
I love collections, don't you? The idea that someone has put together a series of objects for a specific reason, really captures my interest. And the best items in a collection, are for sure the rare ones. If you have a weird mentality, a bit like mine, then you can't miss the photography exposition at [...]
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New York Times (Free subscription) | 01/24/2008
The Danziger Projects gallery on West 26th Street is showing the work of Scott Schuman, a photographer known from the blog The Sartorialist.
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gmtPlus9 (-15) (Free subscription) | 01/20/2008
Disfarmer: Women at Steven Kasher Gallery. "...Disfarmer: Women is the first exhibition that looks beyond a survey of Mike Disfarmer’s photography in order to examine a single crucial theme of his production and his psychology. None of the 35-40 pictures that comprise this show have been previously exhibited. Disfarmer’s portraits are startling, captivating experiences because they embody a complicated...
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Financial Time (Free subscription) | 01/19/2008
Workers of the world unite! You are the new role models for Milanese men's fashion. Designers in the Italian fashion capital - in a funk about the subprime crisis, the...
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Sydney Morning Herald (Free subscription) | 11/21/2007
August Sander made it his life's work to create a photographic record of the German people.
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Critical Miami (Free subscription) | 09/28/2007
Tonight Congrats to Sweat Records on getting a proper store-front . It opens at the end of November, tonight is the farewell party for the old location, with the gazillion bands you'd expect at a Churchill's event. The aforementioned Miami Hip Hop Project continues all weekend. Zygosis and August Sander documentary screenings at the Wolfsonian, 7pm. Get rich serving delicious frozen treats: Rita’s...
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Ellipsis...Suddenly Carly (Free subscription) | 05/13/2007
"In photography, there is no shadow which cannot be illuminated." August Sander I love fireworks. I love photography. But I really love working on my fireworks photography. :) Last night gave me a great opportunity to do just that. It was time again for the annual KABOOM concert and fireworks show, sponsored by KFOG 104.5. Great music, and an awesome extended fireworks show, was just what the doctor...
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Click opera (Free subscription) | 02/21/2007
Berufskleidung is the German word for working clothes. I love to buy them. They're bold, durable, and odd -- paradoxically, practicality gives these boiler suits and gloves much more interesting shapes than any fashion designer would dare. They're garish yet severe, flamboyant yet macho, pragmatic yet decorative. They use unusual, innovative materials -- rubber! plastic-sealed paper! -- and have lots...
