The Easel

27th June 2017

The ‘August Sander’ Show At Hauser & Wirth Reaffirms Photography As Art Form

Adam Lehrer | Forbes | 1st May 2017

Physiognomy – the inference of personality from someone’s appearance – doesn’t work. But a century ago it motivated Sander to photograph thousands of his fellow Germans. “All of his subjects seem to wear labor like a badge. [Sander said] allow me to be honest and tell the truth about our age and its people”. Sadly, he didn’t prove the theory but did lay the foundations of fine art photography. Some images are here.

Image: Hauser and Wirth

13th June 2017

A must see: Dorothea Lange’s remarkable photographs at OMCA

Emily Mendel | Berkeleyside | 15th May 2017

Lange is commonly referred to as a social activist but that’s not how she saw it. She said she just wanted to show the truth. Her portraits of people who fled to California from the Dust Bowl are iconic images of poor America.  “Five years earlier, I would have thought it enough to take a picture of a man, no more. But now, I wanted to take a picture of a man as he stood in his world.” More images are here.

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