I lie awake more and more during the hour of the wolf, between night and dawn…when most people die and nightmares are most real. It is the hour when the sleepless are haunted by their worst anguish, when ghosts and demons are most powerful. My hallucinations are also more real.

August Sander. A departure from abstraction and return to realism. “If we can create portraits of subjects that are true, we thereby in effect create a mirror of the times.” Farmer on his Way to Church. 1925. Farm Children. 1927. Country Girls. 1925. War Invalid. 1928.

As the land of the free and the home of the brave reverberates to cries of Make America Great Again, what is often overlooked is the complicated notion of the word “again”.

@darlowaller Dystopian to say the least.

Michael Dressel was born in Berlin but spent four decades living and working in the US. ‘I look for visual constellations that express my own feelings – but I like to leave room for viewers’ interpretations’. Images from ‘The End is Near, Here’.

@JanoidLCFC They are Janice 👍

Carrie Mae Weems. The Kitchen Table Series. She staged and photographed a fictional drama in which she plays the lead. She suggests the kitchen table is the real stage where life’s biggest moments play out, and where the full range of human emotions is expressed. Fabulous.

If you’re new to the films of Yvonne Rainer, you could start with her first two features. They demonstrated a new direction for experimental film-making, and combined formal exploration with political and emotional concerns.

@hollanddaaze @GeorgeW78246413 @kh_hildreth @Maraaaks @Democracy631 @kvtp11 @pbpianoman @KregerPatricia @realMattKParker @so_contrary @SharonHascall @Wahrhaftig @Tribe_XX @gloriamassana @flor_ali @ADASpota @StellaAmato4 @lunarscp @laurazee6 @GranatSynnove @LKpaddy @van_strael @_motherslug @SlugfestBoston @essential_jade Late capitalism can't produce many new ideas any more, but it can reliably deliver technological upgrades. Mark Fisher.

@MitziPepall The Guggenheim/Venice is a wonderful place.

RT @Bertrom: Dead of Night. 1945. An Ealing Studios classic horror anthology that I saw on television when I was quite young. I still love…

@ChimeWhistle There are certainly interesting, emotional narratives here.

RT @edwardpiercy: @Rosalia27610189 @Bertrom

Morris Engel. Born in 1918 in Brooklyn to immigrant parents from Lithuania. An early interest in photography led him, in 1935, to enroll in a class at the New York Photo League, a group dedicated to raising social consciousness through documentary photography.

RT @Rosalia27610189: . . Deborah Turbeville . .

Carl Mydans. He obtained his first important photographic assignment in 1935 after he had joined what was to become the Farm Secruity Administration (FSA). Historic recurrence. Again.

Bill Owens. ‘We’re really happy. Our kids are healthy, we eat good food, and we have a really nice home’. Suburbia series, 1972. Born in San Jose, in 1938, Owens began to pursue photography while serving in the Peace Corps. He started working as a photographer in 1968.