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
photo caption (above) © Max Ernst, The Roaring of the Ferocious Soldiers (Le Mugissement des feroces soldats). 1919 “Indeed, the apparent sadism of the photographs raised the specter of surrealist misogyny; but it also pointed to an adjacent issue no less difficult: are these surrealist transgressions of the body related to actual transgressions of the…
Read More© Gaëtan Gatian de Clerambault, photographs taken between 1914 and 1918, while C was in Morocco recuperating from a war wound. “…consider the relation of this figure to the photographs taken by Clerambault. Does this historical fantasy of colonial cloth underlie his photographs? Do we see in them not, as some of them seemed earlier…
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© Deborah Bohnert, Untitled, from the series Bohnert and Bohnert, 2005 © Deborah Bohnert, Untitled, from the series Bohnert and Bohnert, 2005 © Deborah Bohnert, Untitled, from the series The Little People, 2009 “…Dada had long operated according to the principle of instability, blurring distinctions between art and mass media (in photomontage), art and mass…
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© Bryan Lewis Saunders, under the influence of butane honey oil (left) and morphine IV (right) © Bryan Lewis Saunders, under the influence of 1/2g cocaine (left) and 1 “bump” of crystalmeth (right) “After experiencing drastic changes in my environment, I looked for other experiences that might profoundly affect my perception of the self. So…
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N I H I L S E N T I M E N T A L G I A, 