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Faces. The power of the human visage (2021)
Starting from Helmar Lerskiโs outstanding photo series Metamorphosis through Light (1935/36), the exhibition Faces presents portraits from the period of the Weimar Republic.
The 1920s and โ30s saw photographers radically renew the conventional understanding of the classic portrait: their aim was no longer to represent an individualโs personality; instead, they conceived of the face as material to be staged according to their own ideas. In this, the photographed face became a locus for dealing with avant-garde aesthetic ideas as well as interwar-period social developments. And it was thus that modernist experiments, the relationship between individual and general type, feminist roll-playing, and political ideologies collided inโand thereby expandedโthe general understanding of portrait photography.
Faces. Die Macht des Gesichts (2021)
Die Ausstellung Faces in der ALBERTINA prรคsentiert Portrรคts der deutschen Zwischenkriegszeit. Ausgangspunkt dafรผr ist Helmar Lerskis herausragende Fotoserie Verwandlungen durch Licht (1935/36).
In den 1920er- und 30er-Jahren erneuern Fotografinnen und Fotografen das Verstรคndnis des klassischen Portrรคts radikal: Ihre Aufnahmen dienen nicht mehr der Darstellung der Persรถnlichkeit eines Menschen, sondern fassen das Gesicht als nach ihren Vorstellungen inszenierbares Material auf.
รber das fotografierte Gesicht werden sowohl รคsthetische รberlegungen der Avantgarde als auch gesellschaftliche Entwicklungen der Zwischenkriegszeit dargestellt. Experimente mit neuer Formensprache, das Verhรคltnis zwischen Individuum und Typ, feministische Rollenspiele und politische Ideologien treffen aufeinander und erweitern damit das Verstรคndnis der Portrรคtfotografie.
Quelle : Albertina Museum

Flower blossoms photographed by William Dassonville; very different from his usual landscape repertoire.



William E. Dassonville was a California photographer primarily known for his landscapes. He was an associate of Ansel Adams and worked with William Keith, George Stirling, Maynard Dixon, and John Miur. Born in Sacramento, CA, he acted as secretary of the California Camera Club and contributed to Camera Craft. He also invented a velvety surfaced printing paper that he later manufactured commercially (REF: Getty). His chemistry was heralded by Ansel Adams and Imogen Cunningham, and he exhibited alongside Alfred Stieglitz, Clarence White, and Gertrude Kasebier (REF: icp org) | src liveauctioneers

![Aenne Biermann :: Orchid, ca. 1930. Gelatin silver print. [Detail] From : Aenne Biermann : Up Close and Personal at Tel Aviv Museum of Art](https://unregardoblique.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/aenne-biermann_orchid-ca.-1930-detail-tel-aviv-museum.jpg)



