German photographer Hilla Becher dies (1934-2015)
☛ Water Towers: “11. Neunkirchen, Saarland, D 1979” by Bernd Becher and Hilla Becher, Cambridge: MIT Press, 1988. German photographer Hilla Becher died on Saturday, October 10, in Düsseldorf. Her husband, Bernd Becher, died in 2007. They are renowned for the systematic documentation of industrial architecture they produced together since the late 1950s. This systematic […]
Michel Foucault 1984-2014: meditation on death
What gives the meditation on death its particular value is not just that it anticipates what opinion generally represents as the greatest misfortune; it is not just that it enables one to convince oneself that death is not evil; rather, it offers the possibility of looking back, in advance so to speak, on one’s life. […]
American cartoonist Charles Barsotti dies (1933-2014)
☛ The New Yorker “‘A writer?’ she gasped” by Charles Barsotti, June 27, 1994, p. 133. © Condé Nast. This cartoon appeared in the 1994 special Fiction issue of The New Yorker. The cartoonist and illustrator Charles Barsotti, who was born on 1933, died on June 16, 2014: Barsotti, longtime Kansas Citian and cartoonist for […]
American photographer Saul Leiter dies (1923-2013)
☛ Saul Leiter: Early Color by Saul Leiter, Göttingen: Steidl, [2006]2008, “Don’t Walk”, 1952. Image retrieved from The New Yorker. © Saul Leiter. American photographer Saul Leiter died on November 26 in New York. In the “Introduction” he wrote for a book about Saul Leiter published in Thames & Hudsons Photofile series, American art historian […]
