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
© Stephen Dupont, from Papua New Guinea Portraits and Diaries © Stephen Dupont, from Papua New Guinea Portraits and Diaries © Stephen Dupont, from Papua New Guinea Portraits and Diaries excerpts from Adolf Loos‘ manifesto Ornament and Crime (1908). In the womb the human embryo passes through all the development stages of the animal kingdom.…
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© Nádia Ribeiro, 12 Letters, 2009 Pinhole gelatine silver prints (12 positives + 12 negatives), envelopes + photometric calculus In An Archival Impulse, Hal Foster speaks about such impulse as a self-sufficient tendency. The archival impulse is, in fact, a sort of mutation of the repetition compulsion, a way to deal with memory through actions…
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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…
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N I H I L S E N T I M E N T A L G I A, 