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Gustave Doré in the tradition of London – Reportage II: Dreadful Paris
Not translated: 3) Die Scheußlichkeiten von Paris 4) Praetorium 3) Die Scheußlichkeiten von Paris Die Idee, Dantes Pilgerfahrt auf zeitgenössische urbane Verhältnisse umzumünzen, war allerdings so neu nicht. Dorés Londoner Inferno hatte seine Entsprechung in Honoré de Balzacs literarischem Monumentalopus La Comédie humaine, das die Hölle Dantes in Paris lokalisierte. Der französische Dichter stellte […]
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Gustave Doré in the Tradition of London-Reportage I: Hell Circles of the Metropolis
Not translated: 1) Einleitung 2) Die Hölle London 1) Einleitung An dem Porträt der britischen Metropole London. A Pilgrimage hat Gustav Doré auf Einladung seines Freundes, des englischen Publizisten Blanchard Jerrold, insgesamt fünf Jahre lang gearbeitet von der ersten Projektierung 1867 bis zur Drucklegung, die erst Ende 1872 abgeschlossen war.(1) Auch im angelsächsischen Sprachbereich stand […]
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John Thomas Smith and the Invention of Investigative Social Reportage IV: Inner Africa
Abriged version. For footnotes please see the more detailed German version. 6) Inner Africa For Smith, the street cries pictures had a decisive advantage in comparison to the costume book. It was a speaking medium associated with the acoustic notion of original sound meant to suggest directness and authenticity. Every vendor was attributed a unique […]
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Slums in the outskirts of London, 1797
“Remarks on Rural Scenery” was created by John Thomas Smith with the support of his student John Constable. It consists of a sequence of twenty etchings that were all made “after nature” and depict the most various kinds of rural housings for the poor on the periphery of the exploding metropolis of London. The places […]
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John Thomas Smith and the Invention of Investigative Social Reportage II: Republican Palaces
Abriged version. For footnotes please see the more detailed German version. -3) Republican Palaces -4) Digression I: Blake’s Cottage 3) Republican Palaces Remarks on Rural Scenery is Smith’s shortest publication. It consists of a sequence of twenty etchings that were all made “after nature” and depict the most various kinds of rural housings for […]
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Algerian Guerrilla War I : Auguste Raffet & Horace Vernet – Pictures of Dynamized Masses and the Art of Reconstruction
Pictorial Reports from the Algerian Guerrilla War I The occupation of Algeria was initiated by Charles X in June 1830 with the capture of Algiers, just a few weeks before the collapse of the Bourbon Restoration regime. At first, the bourgeois July Monarchy under Louis-Philippe had a bit of a hard time warming to this […]
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Some notes on the ACRE series of pencil drawing
28 drawings made during a residency in Acre, Brazil as part of my invitation to the 27th Sao Paolo Bienal, ‘How to live together’. Drawing as reportage: I have tried to merge historical, environmental, anthropological research with my own experience of rituals, exchanges, and travel during my residency in Acre. This series does not capture […]
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Hélio Melo – The Whole of Acre in a single Tree
In the work Estrada da Floresta [Forest Highway] by artist Hélio Melo (1926–2001, from the Brazilian state of Acre) a rubber tapper – in Portuguese, seringueiro –approaches a big rubber tree, which in the wild can measure in excess of thirty meters in height and almost three meters in diameter. The picture does not therefore […]
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The Recorded Other: Ethnographic Drawing, 1800-1900
In 1800, the Swiss educational reformer Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi found drawing to be “a general human matter,” “eine allgemeinmenschliche Sache.” This maxim is at once both a claim and a vision. Pestalozzi raised drawing to the rank of a fundamental anthropological fact supposedly preceding all ethnic, cultural, social, and professional differentiation. Seen before the backdrop […]