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
© Sanne Sannes, The face of love, 1965 © Sanne Sannes, Untitled, 1962-65 Can love restore the ‘primitive-ego’? is obviously not a question I have the answer for but, nonetheless, it is one that is worth revisiting now and then. It’s not difficult to understand that ‘falling in love’ is an event that messes with…
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LUIS BUÑUEL: L’Age d’Or (1930)
Read MoreLa migliore offerta, 2013. Directed by Giuseppe Tornatore. Music by Ennio Morricone.
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JEAN-LUC GODARD: Le Petit Soldat (1963) excerpts from: Being Singular Plural, by Jean-Luc Nancy, Stanford University Press, 2000, pp.10-81: “As a consequence, gaining access to the origin, entering into meaning, comes down to exposing oneself to this truth. What this means is that we do not gain access to the origin: access is refused by…
Read MoreIntroducing Nihilsentimentalgia’s newcomer André Carapinha with an essay about the veil of shadows that stands between our perception and “reality”. Photographs illustrating the essay all belong to Trish Morrissey‘s project Front (2005-07), where she sets out to find families that she joins temporarily, in an “as if/has-been” moment, at the same time manipulating reality and…
Read MoreWe’re all in deep shit but at least in Portugal, TODAY, we know what to do! “As Pedro Passos Coelho, Portugal’s center-right prime minister, prepares to announce a new budget on Monday — filled with still more steep tax increases and public sector job cuts — he faces the kind of popular backlash that was,…
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@ Julie Hascoët, Untitled, from the project Tenir/Rester @ Julie Hascoët, Untitled, from the project Tenir/Rester @ Julie Hascoët, Hug, from the series 4 Months @ Julie Hascoët, Emilie, from the series 4 Months More of her work here
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photo by © Brea Souders, French Bed and Moon “When I get confused about love, or other things in the world, thinking about Spinozian definitions often helps me because of their clarity. Spinoza defines love as the increase of our joy, that is, the increase of our power to act and think, with the recognition…
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© KayLynn Deveney, Untitled, from the series Edith and Len, 2000 © KayLynn Deveney, Cat on Bed, from the series Edith and Len, 2000 “I began photographing Edith and Leonard Crawshaw shortly after they moved from their flat into a Welsh nursing home. Following a broken hip and an extended hospital stay, Len required…
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© Zanele Muholi, Being series, 2007 © Zanele Muholi, Being series, 2007 to view more about this work click here
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