I recently had my 50thbirthday and my wife was kind enough to arrange a party for me and all of our family.  Between us we have seven children and six grandchildren so family parties such as this are very rarely brought together. At the party, people had brought old pictures of them and me so this […]

Assessment of August Sander’s Techniques This piece exercise looks in detail at the images created by August Sander as part of his project “People of the Twentieth Century”.  In his work, Sander adopted typology to classify people into one of seven categories:  ‘The Farmer’, ‘The Skilled Tradesman’, ‘The Woman’, ‘Classes and Professions’, ‘The Artists’, ‘The City’ and […]

The image that I have chosen is of a native American taken by Edward Curtis (see fig. 1.).  This image was taken in 1907 and shows an elderly man who appears to be quite senior, at least that is what I deduce based on the relatively large headdress that he is wearing. Whilst much historic portraiture […]