N I H I L S E N T I M E N T A L G I A,
a blog about photography by Sofia Silva
all images © Cliff Andrade, from the project Saudade. Although I enjoy landscape photography very much, I often get bored by the way some photographers build their documentary projects around it, as if the mountain and its goats spoke the same language. They don’t. On this note, Cliff Andrade’s project Saudade (about Madeira) was a…
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Henry Peach Robinson, Fading Away, 1858. Oscar Gustava Rejlander, Two ways of life, 1857. John Heartfield, Adolf, Self-portrait with Police, 1929. Raoul Hausmann, Le Critique d’art, 1918. Alexander Rodtchenko, Montages, 1923. László Moholy-Nagy, The Olly and Dolly Sisters, 1925. Hannah Höch, The Bride, 1933. Paul Eluard, L’Hystérie, circa 1928. Man Ray, Observatory Time –The Lovers,…
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Pablo Picasso, Still-life, 1914. Pablo Picasso, Glass of Absinthe, 1914. Kurt Schwitters,Merz Construction, 1921. Kurt Schwitters, Small Sailors’ Home, 1926. André Breton, Poem-Objet, 1935. Joseph Cornell, Abeilles, 1940. Joseph Cornell, Lauran Bacall, 1945-46. Josh Latham, Belief System, 1959. Robert Rauschenberg, Coca-Cola plan, 1959. Daniel Spoerri, Word Snares, 1964. Daniel Spoerri, Skin diseases, 1985-86. David Lynch,…
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Pablo Picasso, Still-life with Chair-caning, 1912. Juan Gris, Breakfast, 1914. Kazimir Malevich, Soldier of the First Division, 1914. Kurt Schwitters, Merz Picture 32 A. The Cherry Picture, 1921. Max Ernst, Approaching Puberty… (ThePleiades), 1921. Max Ernst, The Couple, 1923. El Lissistszky, Tatlin at Work, 1921. Robert Motherwell, View from a High Tower, 1944–45. Raymond Hains,…
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