btp 14-2015 (april)

Transmission

14-2015

Truth and Photography

Uploaded at 3.15 pm Monday 6th April 2015Studios Robespierre

"The modern age, which believes that truth is neither given to nordisclosed to but produced by the human mind, has assigned, since Leibniz,mathematical, scientific, and philosophical truths to the common speciesof rational truth as distinguished from factual truth...

The chance of factual truth surviving the onslaught of power are veryslim indeed, it is always in danger of being manœuvered out of the worldnot only for a time, but potentially forever.

Facts and events are infinitely more fragiles things than axioms,discoveries, theories..."

Hannah Arendt, Truth and Politics.

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“L'Age moderne, qui croit que la vérité n’est ni donnée ni révélée, mais produite par lecerveau 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 eneffet, elle est toujours susceptible d'être éliminée de la perception de l’histoire non seulementpour 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.

Contents of Transmission 14-2015 :

Seven silver prints

Three auctions for April

Two covers you have missed

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Semaine 14 : 5-11 avril 2015

[Maria Spiridonova (1884-1941)]Six Left-SR Ballots for Russian Constituent AssemblyPetrograd, November 1917

Six original paper ballots fot Maria Spiridonova and Left-SR candidates, witha vintage photographic postcard of the famous Russian socialistrevolutionary.

This 1917 Assembly is generally recognized as the first democraticallyelected 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 democraticelection until the 1990’s.

200 euros

Week 14 : April 5-11, 2015

Spiridonova assassination of policeofficial Luzhenovsky in 1905 was themost famous terrorist act by a woman inRussia, and her subsequent abuse bypolice made her a celebrated martyr. After11 years in Siberia, she returned as aheroine of the Revolution. She led the LeftSRs into alliance with Lenin and theBolsheviks, but was incarcerated in amental sanitarium after the Left SRs brokewith the Bolsheviks in 1918. During theGreat Purge, she was consigned to theGulag and summarily executed in thesummer 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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Friedrich Bauer (1903-1972)PassionspiehlPfaffenhofen vor München, 1930

Vintage silver print on mat paper, 165x230mm, stamped and titled at verso.

On July 16, 1933 Friedrich Bauer wroteand published a propaganda photo reportabout the Dachau concentration camp inthe journal Munich Illustrated Press (CF.Wikipedia).

“While probably no former time toleratedso many diverse opinions on religious andphilosophical matters, factual truth, if ithappens to oppose a given group's profitor pleasure, is greeted today with greaterhostility than ever before.To be sure, statesecrets have always existed..." HannahArendt

“Factual truth... is greeted today with greater hostility than ever before”

200 euros

Week 14 : April 5-11, 2015

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NKVD PhotoreporterDuring the Red TerrorUkraine, 1935

Vintage silver print, 175x215 mm.

A striking surviving factual truth.

La réalité dépasse la fiction

1.200 euros

Week 14 : April 5-11, 2015

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NKVD ReporterThe rewards well deservedURSS, 1937

Vintage silver print, 175x225 mm,caption at reverse.

A happy propaganda photograph :the whole family of the exemplaryworker received a well deservedreward : a week holyday on theFrench Riviera.

“Fiat veritas et pereat mundus...”

300 euros

Week 14 : April 5-11, 2015

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[Bernard Tussaud (c. 1890-1967)Hitler, Daladier, Mussolini & Staline at Madame TussaudsLondon, c. 1937

Two vintage silver printv, 165x120 mm, French caption on the mount.

Ref : Pamela Pilbeam, Madame Tussaud: And the History of Waxworks.

“Photography possesses a strengt of its own”

(2 prints) 300 euros

Week 14 : April 5-11, 2015

“Truth, though powerlessand always defeated in ahead-on clash with powersthat be, possesses a strengtof its own ; whatever those inpower may contrive, they areunable to discover or inventa viable sustitute for it.”

(Hanna Arendt, V)

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United Nations PhotoreporterDeclaration of human rights : voteAndes, 1948

Vintage silver print, 253x205 mm, captions in fourlanguages : English, French, Spanish, Beazilian

100 euros

Week 14 : April 5-11, 2015

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[Mario Giacomelli (1925-20 00)]Walking with Aldrin on the surface of the MoonSenigallia, July 1969

Vintage Agfacolor silver print, 128x90 mm, from the studio of Italian artistMario Giacomelli.

A conceptual amateur cropping from the celebrated Italian lanscapephotographer’s archive. Only the Agfa watermark indicates it cannot be anoriginal NASA print, supposed to be only on US Kodak papers.

A Man on the Moon is one of the most famous photographs of the 20thCentury : Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin walks on the surface of the moonnear the leg of the lunar module Eagle. Apollo 11 Commander NeilArmstrong took this photograph with a 70mm lunar surface camera.Armstrong and Aldrin explored the Sea of Tranquility for two and a halfhours while crewmate Michael Collins orbited above in the commandmodule Columbia.

There has been much speculation about Aldrin's desire at the time to be thefirst astronaut to walk on the Moon on July 21, 1969. According to differentNASA accounts, he had originally been proposed as the first to step ontothe Moon's surface, but due to the physical positioning of the astronautsinside 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 onthe Moon.

800 euros

Week 14 : April 5-11, 2015

"Euclide est un véritable despote; et les véritésgéométriques qu'il nous a transmise, sont des loixvéritablement despotiques; leur despotisme légal et ledespotisme 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 politiqueHannah Arendt : Du Mensonge en politique

24 April

Three auctions in April

Littérature, musique, photographiedescriptions : Devroe & StubbeThe Romantic AgonyFriday 24th april at 1 pm40 rue de l’Aqueduc - Bruxelles http://www.romanticagony.com/en/catalogue/detail/30

Three auctions in April

Sesión I, Charles Clifforddescriptions : Juan NaranjoXednesday 15th April C/ Rosellón 227 Barcelona 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

15 April

Sesión II, Fotografías y Fotolibrosdescriptions : Juan NaranjoXednesday 15th April C/ Rosellón 227 Barcelona 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

15 April

The covers you have missed

Transmission

14-2015

“Du Mensonge en politique”

uploaded at 3.15 pm Monday 6th April 2015Studios Robespierre

n°119

The covers you have missed

Transmission

14-2015

“Du Mensonge en politique”

uploaded at 3.15 pm Monday 6th April 2015Studios Robespierre

n°120

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