Tag Archives: August Sander

Berger on The Suit and the Photograph

May 25, 2012

“The suit, as we know it today, developed in Europe as a professional ruling-class costume in the last third of the 19th century. Almost anonymous as a uniform, it was the first ruling-class costume to idealise purely sedentary power. The… Continue reading →

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One off: August Sander.

May 25, 2012

Photograph: August Sander, Young Farm Girl, 1930/1 in August Sander: Citizens of the Twentieth Century.

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One off: Vanessa Winship.

April 6, 2012

Untitled portrait, by Vanessa Winship, from Georgia work-in-progress.

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Visser on Dijkstra

February 22, 2012

“One would clearly not want to term the work of Rineke Dijkstra ironic, but it is certainly averse to great gestures, leaden concepts of academic reflection. Despite all her artistic and commercial success, Dijkstra operates on a small scale, and… Continue reading →

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Kozloff and Sander on Portraiture

February 15, 2012

“In the nineteenth century, the maintenance of the sitter’s stance and the moment of the ‘take’ were in equilibrium. There would have been little interest in any preceding or succeeding incident. The duration of the pose was integral to itself,… Continue reading →

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