August Sander, The Master Photographer: 1876-1964

by Pier Marton | Mar 22, 2011 | Art, Books, Care, Doc, Ego, History, Media, Photo, Politics, Shoah, Time, Wars, Women

1400 pages, 7 volumes, 650 photographs published by Abrams
– a monumental project, presently out of print –

Eric Mühsam (m.) – murdered in 1934 in the Oranienburg concentration camp

Mühsam was arrested by Nazi officers, who shattered his teeth with repeated strikes of a rifle butt and branded a swastika on his scalp; eventually he was beaten to death and his body hung up in a latrine.
Erich Sander (r.), August Sander’s son,
was condemned to 10 years of jail and died there in 1944

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BREAK THE SURFACE
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To ride the unbalance* between:
1. excellence and a kind, singular and porous identity that contains some of the scruples, humor, humility, musicality & the beauty of a harsh and confusing, yet benign and rich reality – away from distractions.
2. the stupidity and blindness of complacency, violence, injustice, pretense, egos, short-term… wishful… and group “thinking,” and empty talk – in all of their surprising embodiments. And the false sense of fullness all of this provides.
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An appeal for a world NOT so caught up in anthropo/ego/euro/ethno/oculo/esthetico -CENTRISM.
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1. Beware of those who claim to be strong – they are often dangerous.
2. Unmask the hoax of “centrality” – ask an “EX-centric” for assistance?
3. Perceive the arrogance of normalcy: everybody, in one way or another, is handicapped… which brings us back to 1.
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*Not unrelated to “There is beauty and there are the humiliated. Whatever difficulties the enterprise may present, I should like never to be unfaithful either to the second or the first.” — Albert Camus