"The modern age, which believes that truth is neither given to nor disclosed to but produced by the human mind, has assigned, since Leibniz, mathematical, scientific, and philosophical truths to the common species of rational truth as distinguished from factual truth... The chance of factual truth surviving the onslaught of power are very slim indeed, it is always in danger of being manœuvered out of the world not only for a time, but potentially forever.
Transmission 14-2015
Truth and Photography
Facts and events are infinitely more fragiles things than axioms, discoveries, theories..." Hannah Arendt, Truth and Politics. “L'Age moderne, qui croit que la vérité n’est ni donnée ni révélée, mais produite par le cerveau humain, a assignée, depuis Leibniz, les vérités mathématiques, scientifiques, philosophiques à la forme commune de la vérité de raison, à distinguer de la vérité de fait. La chance pour une vérité factuelle de survivre les assauts du pouvoir sont très minces en effet, elle est toujours susceptible d'être éliminée de la perception de l’histoire non seulement pour un temps révisé, voire même pour toujours. Les faits et les événements sont infiniment plus fragiles que les axiomes, les découvertes, les théories...” Hannah Arendt, Du Mensonge a la violence.
n°101
Contents of Transmission 14-2015 : Seven silver prints Three auctions for April Two covers you have missed
Uploaded at 3.15 pm Monday 6th April 2015 Studios Robespierre
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Week 14 : April 5-11, 2015
[Maria Spiridonova (1884-1941)] Six Left-SR Ballots for Russian Constituent Assembly Petrograd, November 1917 Six original paper ballots fot Maria Spiridonova and Left-SR candidates, with a vintage photographic postcard of the famous Russian socialist revolutionary. This 1917 Assembly is generally recognized as the first democratically elected legislative body of any kind in Russian history. It met for 13 hours, from 4 p.m. to 5 a.m., 18 January 1918. Also considered the last democratic election until the 1990’s.
200 euros Spiridonova assassination of police official Luzhenovsky in 1905 was the most famous terrorist act by a woman in Russia, and her subsequent abuse by police made her a celebrated martyr. After 11 years in Siberia, she returned as a heroine of the Revolution. She led the Left SRs into alliance with Lenin and the Bolsheviks, but was incarcerated in a mental sanitarium after the Left SRs broke with the Bolsheviks in 1918. During the Great Purge, she was consigned to the Gulag and summarily executed in the summer of 1941.
“The chance of factual truth surviving the onslaught of power are very slim indeed, it is always in danger of being manœuvered out of the world not only for a time, but potentially forever. [Photographs and documents]... are infinitely more fragiles things than axioms, discoveries, theories..." (Hannah Arendt, Truth and Politics)
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Week 14 : April 5-11, 2015
Friedrich Bauer (1903-1972) Passionspiehl Pfaffenhofen vor München, 1930 Vintage silver print on mat paper, 165x230 mm, stamped and titled at verso. On July 16, 1933 Friedrich Bauer wrote and published a propaganda photo report about the Dachau concentration camp in the journal Munich Illustrated Press (CF. Wikipedia). “While probably no former time tolerated so many diverse opinions on religious and philosophical matters, factual truth, if it happens to oppose a given group's profit or pleasure, is greeted today with greater hostility than ever before.To be sure, state secrets have always existed..." Hannah Arendt
200 euros “Factual truth... is greeted today with greater hostility than ever before”
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Week 14 : April 5-11, 2015
NKVD Photoreporter During the Red Terror Ukraine, 1935 Vintage silver print, 175x215 mm. A striking surviving factual truth.
1.200 euros La réalité dépasse la fiction
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Week 14 : April 5-11, 2015
NKVD Reporter The rewards well deserved URSS, 1937 Vintage silver print, 175x225 mm, caption at reverse. A happy propaganda photograph : the whole family of the exemplary worker received a well deserved reward : a week holyday on the French Riviera.
300 euros “Fiat veritas et pereat mundus...�
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Week 14 : April 5-11, 2015
[Bernard Tussaud (c. 1890-1967) Hitler, Daladier, Mussolini & Staline at Madame Tussauds London, c. 1937 Two vintage silver printv, 165x120 mm, French caption on the mount. Ref : Pamela Pilbeam, Madame Tussaud: And the History of Waxworks.
“Truth, though powerless and always defeated in a head-on clash with powers that be, possesses a strengt of its own ; whatever those in power may contrive, they are unable to discover or invent a viable sustitute for it.” (Hanna Arendt, V)
(2 prints) 300 euros “Photography possesses a strengt of its own”
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Week 14 : April 5-11, 2015
United Nations Photoreporter Declaration of human rights : vote Andes, 1948 Vintage silver print, 253x205 mm, captions in four languages : English, French, Spanish, Beazilian
100 euros
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Week 14 : April 5-11, 2015
[Mario Giacomelli (1925-20 00)] Walking with Aldrin on the surface of the Moon Senigallia, July 1969 Vintage Agfacolor silver print, 128x90 mm, from the studio of Italian artist Mario Giacomelli. A conceptual amateur cropping from the celebrated Italian lanscape photographer’s archive. Only the Agfa watermark indicates it cannot be an original NASA print, supposed to be only on US Kodak papers. A Man on the Moon is one of the most famous photographs of the 20th Century : Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin walks on the surface of the moon near the leg of the lunar module Eagle. Apollo 11 Commander Neil Armstrong took this photograph with a 70mm lunar surface camera. Armstrong and Aldrin explored the Sea of Tranquility for two and a half hours while crewmate Michael Collins orbited above in the command module Columbia. There has been much speculation about Aldrin's desire at the time to be the first astronaut to walk on the Moon on July 21, 1969. According to different NASA accounts, he had originally been proposed as the first to step onto the Moon's surface, but due to the physical positioning of the astronauts inside the compact lunar landing module, it was easier for the commander, Neil Armstrong, to be the first to exit the spacecraft. Aldrin, a Presbyterian, was the first person to hold a religious ceremony on the Moon.
800 euros
"Euclide est un véritable despote; et les vérités géométriques qu'il nous a transmise, sont des loix véritablement despotiques; leur despotisme légal et le despotisme personnel de ce Législateur n'en sont qu'un: celui de la force irrésistible de l'évidence...”
Hannah Arendt : Truth and Politics
Hannaa Arendt : Truth and Politics
Hannah Arendt : Du Mensonge en politique
Hannah Arendt : Du Mensonge en politique
Three auctions in April
Three auctions in April
Sesión I, Charles Clifford descriptions : Juan Naranjo Xednesday 15th April C/ Rosellón 227 Barcelona http://juannaranjo.eu/subastas/ www.balclis.com
15 April
Las fotografías que componen la venta se podrán ver desde el 7 al 14 de abril en la Sala de Subastas Balclis, c/ Rosellón, 227, 08008 Barcelona
Sesión II, Fotografías y Fotolibros descriptions : Juan Naranjo Xednesday 15th April C/ Rosellón 227 Barcelona
15 April
http://juannaranjo.eu/subastas/ www.balclis.com Las fotografías que componen la venta se podrán ver desde el 7 al 14 de abril en la Sala de Subastas Balclis, c/ Rosellón, 227, 08008 Barcelona
Littérature, musique, photographie descriptions : Devroe & Stubbe The Romantic Agony Friday 24th april at 1 pm 40 rue de l’Aqueduc - Bruxelles http://www.romanticagony.com/en/catalogue/detail/30
24 April
The covers you have missed
The covers you have missed
Transmission
Transmission
14-2015
14-2015
“Du Mensonge en politique”
“Du Mensonge en politique”
n°120
n°119
uploaded at 3.15 pm Monday 6th April 2015 Studios Robespierre
uploaded at 3.15 pm Monday 6th April 2015 Studios Robespierre