as mentioned –The New Objectivity’s focus on the objective world resonated with later photographers like Bernd and Hilla Becher, who became influential artists and teachers highly regarded for their typological studies of various architectural structures. Bernd and Hilla Becher, Coal Bunker, GB 1973 And this Sachlichkeit do also, I must confess, resonate with me — here…
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Neue Sachlichkeit
“It’s important to see things the way they are.” —Otto Dix Almost by accident (my favorite mode of living these days …) I discovered the art of Albert Renger-Patzsch (1897–1966). His photographs immediately struck me as very strong and somber. Renger-Patzsch is often associated with the style of art called Neue Sachlichkeit. Albert Renger-Patzsch, Shoemaking Irons, Fagus Works, Alfeld, 1928….
Are you possessed by topophilia?
C. D. Wright’s: The Poet, The Lion, Talking Pictures, El Farolito, A Wedding in St. Roch, The Big Box Store, The Warp in the Mirror, Spring, Midnights, Fire & All, is a collection of fragments. It is also a book on writing and reading, a book on how reading informs writing, and on the relationship between…
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