Remembering Claude Lanzmann’s epic film on the Holocaust.
from the Assyrian panels display at the British Museum. Approximately 800-900BC.
This is taken from my iPhone which is a worry as the light is too low for my Nikon 40DX!
Also at Tate Modern, London are the photographs of August Sander who had many of his prints, negatives and ,indeed, his studio wrecked by the Nazis when they came to power. The Nazi Minister for Culture deemed his work subversive and “degenerate”. His photographs somehow survived.
These two studies are The National Socialist and The Porter.
More from Christian Schad at Tate Modern, London.
It is almost like looking at a photograph, his style is masterful.
Christian Schad, German painter 1934(?), Tate Modern, London
The detail on the girl’s eyes is exquisite. Full painting beside it to show you the composition.
Expect the President to be under more pressure to give in to Republican demands that the Bush tax cut be extended to everyone — not just the bottom 98 percent but also the the top 2 percent, earning over $250K.
He should respond by offering this olive branch: Extend the Bush tax cuts to the…
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The City of London is a small geographical area which is rich in church buildings, some built on foundations dating back to the Saxon ninth century . It is because they are churches, a centre of worship for generations of Christians, that they survived the vandalism of the ‘modernisers’ though many have not. It is through these churches that we are able to view a peek of a London that has long vanished and if it is only for this reason then they ought to be our most treasured and protected buildings.
These churches are on my doorstep, some quite literally no more than fifteen minutes walk from our front door. So with my young son and a copy of Stephen Millar’s excellent pocket guide, London City Churches , I set out on an adventure last year (2009) to discover these architectural gems, many built by the great architect of Restoration London, Christopher Wren, for myself. What I didn’t expect
to discover is that Londoners are connected to a rich, sumptuous past of invention, prosperity and faith that opened up before me and one which is in need of a wider audience if only to preserve it from the glass fronted vandalism of ‘modernisation’.
The Victorians tried their hardest to demolish so many of these churches as did the City of London Corporation but due to the dogged diligence of organisations such as the Friends of the City Churches and the City of London Churches they continue to prosper. Do visit them. They sit in a part of London you may never have visited before but the reward you will gain will justify the effort.
St Botolph, Bishopsgate, City of London - Saxon origins; it’s 16th century building survived the Great Fire of London in 1666. It was re-built in the 18th century by James Gold 1725-28. During the re-build the Saxon foundations were discovered so it is possible that an earlier church stood there.Dedicated to St Botolph, the patron saint of Travellers.
Also, from Langemark Cemetery.
In the spirit of reconciliation most British school children will visit the German cemetery as part of their visit to the battlefields of the Western Front in Northern Belgium close to the town of Ypre. (this is pronounced ‘eep’ or ‘eeper’. Most British soldiers called it ‘Wipers’.)
The German Cemetery at Langemark on the Western Front, northern Belgium. An eerie cemetery as it is a square design where some forty thousand corpses were buried in a huge hole in the ground. One of the few cemeteries built by the Allies during the Great War (1914-18) to commemorate the fallen of the enemy.
See: http://www.greatwar.co.uk/westfront/ypsalient/cemeteries/langemark.htm
