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 © REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis, A masked protester holds a metal bar during a violent demonstration in Syntagma square in central Athens OPEN LETTER TO ANGELA MERKEL Dear chancellor Merkel, We start by saying we address you only as chancellor of Germany. We did not vote for you and do not acknowledge the existence of a…
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© Rachel de Joode, Untitled Portraits, 2011 © Rachel de Joode, Altars, 2009 More of Rachel’s here
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@ Alexander Gehring, Untitled, from the series Messages from the Darkroom @ Alexander Gehring, Untitled, from the series Messages from the Darkroom The photographic series Messages from the Darkroom investigates the connection between photography and the occult. Based on historical photographs published by early twentieth century parapsychologist Dr. Albert von Schrenck-Notzing, Messages from the Darkroom…
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© Tobias Kruse, The Parting, school leaving examination year 2007 of Carl-von-Ossietzky-Gymnasium, Berlin Pankow, on the graduation trip at Lake Balaton, Siofok, May 2007, Hungary. “Alcoholism extends the impersonal and transcendental event of the ‘crack up’ across a life by way of a caesura of time. Alcoholism, Deleuze writes, ‘hardens’ the present (Deleuze 1990:…
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@ Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs, untitled, from the series Light of other days, 2009 DIRECT POSITIVE PHOTOGRAPHS, 20 X 24 CM EACH @ Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs, untitled, from the series Light of other days, 2009 DIRECT POSITIVE PHOTOGRAPHS, 20 X 24 CM EACH In “End of an Era” Onorato and Krebs continue to explore…
Read More© Steffi Klenz, Untitled, from the series Hewitt’s Heap, 2011 © Steffi Klenz, Untitled, from the series Hewitt’s Heap, 2011 “The first thing we ought to note here is that the German word for the uncanny is ‘unheimlich’. As Freud famously pointed out a century ago, ‘heimlich’, which literally translates as ‘homely’, means two separate…
Read More© Michael Wolf , Corner Houses Hong Kong, 2010 (print screen) © Michael Wolf , Tokio compression, 2010 (print screen) © Michael Wolf , The Transparent City, 2008 (print screen) I’ve tried to pull back and not make a post each time I see someone’s work I find relevant but don’t personally like, but this…
Read More© Cathleen Naundorf, Untitled – Dior, artist’s workshop – Cité Jandelle, Paris © Cathleen Naundorf, Mimi San – Dior, artist’s workshop – Cité Jandelle, Paris “When I decided to photograph 4×5 inches, and even with Polaroid, people asked, ’Are you crazy? Why don ’t you do digital, it takes much less time?’ But, it needs…
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© Jan von Holleben, Untitled #14, from the series Mystery of Monsters, 2009 © Jan von Holleben, Untitled #15, from the series Mystery of Monsters, 2009 “Like amateur pornography, the pleasure of von Holleben’s work derives from its honesty. “People appreciate I’m not over-constructing an image: changing it in Photoshop 25 times, and their sense…
Read More© Tor Seidel, Aussicht, from the series Tableaus, 2006 © Tor Seidel, Wildnis, from the series Tableaus, 2007 More of Tod’s work here
Read More© Katharina Bosse, Untitled, from the series A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Mother, 2004-2009 © Katharina Bosse, Untitled, from the series A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Mother, 2004-2009 “After living in New York for six years, I moved to Germany and became pregnant. Nothing in my career as a…
Read More© Marlo Broekmans, The dove, from the series Self, 1986 © Marlo Broekmans, After Vermeer, from the series Self, 1986 More of Marlo’s work can be seen here
Read More© Julian Röder, Protests agains G-8 summit in Genoa, Italy, 2001 © Julian Röder, Protests agains G-8 summit in Glenagles, Scotland, 2005 © Julian Röder, Protests agains G-8 summit in Kokkaido, Japan, 2008 (…) “No, these are not battle scenes in the art historical sense. Even if Julian Röder does have a strong understanding of…
Read More© Thorsten Brinkmann, Streefkerk, Berta von Schwarzflug, from the series Portraits of a Serialsammler, 2010 © Thorsten Brinkmann, Streefkerk, Venus del Whitespitz, from the series Portraits of a Serialsammler, 2008 “Enter Thorsten Brinkmann. Here is the confident hand of someone who knows the joke, knows just how to tell it, and, best of all, knows…
Read More© Hannah Streefkerk, No title, 2009 embroidery on picture © Hannah Streefkerk, No title, 2009 embroidery on picture More of Hannah’s work here
Read More© Hiroko Inoue, Untitled, from the series Inside-Out, 2005 © Iroko Inoue, Untitled, from the series Inside-Out, 2005 “In her photo series Inside-Out, the Japanese artist Hiroko Inoue explores psychical constellations that go beyond the normative process of socially preformulated reality on account of various life experiences. Windows of patients’ rooms in the psychiatric ward…
Read More© Vanja Vukovic, Untitled #4, from the series The self is a room, 2008 © Vanja Vukovic, Untitled #3, from the series The self is a room, 2008 “The self is a room. It contains the concurrent as well as the non-concurrent, the individual and the social, the orderly, the archived, the unsorted, and the…
Read More© Peter Lorenz, Berlin Alexanderplatz, from the series Don’t fight the feeling © Peter Lorenz, All Yours, from the series Don’t fight the feeling More of Peter’s work here
Read More© Delia Keller, Untitled #1, from the series La Dame en Bleu II, 2002-2009 © Delia Keller, Untitled #8, from the series La Dame en Bleu , 2002 More of Delia’s work can be seen here
Read More© Ulrike Thiele, Untitled #1, from the series Im Garten, 2001 © Ulrike Thiele, Untitled #3, from the series Im Garten, 2001 More of Ulrike’s work here
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