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The Silver Screen Surfer: The Dada Films Of Hans Richter Action Painting, De Stijl, Alfred Stieglitz, Hans Richter, Hans Arp, Francis Picabia, Marcel Duchamp, Philadelphia Museums, Willem De Kooning

Hans Richter was the most important film maker to come out of the German Dada movement before it moved to France and evolved into Surrealism. The Dada movement started during World War One in Zurich, Switzerland amongst writers and artists, mostly Germans and a few Rumanians, hiding out from the war. The ideology of Dada was a rejection of any and all bourgeois values that they associated with a society that seemed to be completely falling apart in the carnage of the first mass industrial…

Irving Penn, Alfred Stieglitz, Irving Penn Portrait, Hans Richter, Georgia O'keeffe, Nadja Auermann, Work In New York, Marcel Duchamp, Celebrity Photography

“I’m a surprisingly limited photographer,” Penn insisted to me, “and I’ve learned not to go beyond my capacity. I’ve tried a few times to depart from what I know I can do, and I’ve failed.” Yet it is difficult to deny that Penn was the supreme studio photographer of the twentieth century. His artistry both emerged from and depended on his very specific, highly aestheticized commercial work.

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