Sarah Goodrum

The Museum für Photographie, founded, developed and directed by Dr. Walter Hahn for only twelve years in the city of Dresden, has only recently emerged in scholarship on East German Photographic culture. Although the museum definitely enjoyed a relationship to the East German cultural authorities within the Cultural League, or Kulturbund, it does not sit easily in the historiographical category of ‘official’ photography in the GDR. Hahn’s version of the history of photography was challenging ...

Afterimage, volume 45, number 2 & 3

The recent exhibition Parapolitics: Cultural Freedom and the Cold War at Berlin’s Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), curated by Anselm Franke, Nida Ghouse, Paz Guevara, and Antonia Majaca, interrogated the intertwined re-canonization of modernism and the international propagation of a US-backed, anti-communist idea of “cultural freedom” put forth by the many-armed Congress for Cultural Freedom (CCF) from 1950–1967. Inaugurated in 1950 in Berlin by anti-totalitarian intellectuals at an event le...

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A Socialist Family of Man | Zeithistorische Forschu...

Review of these exhibitions at the Deutsches Historisches Museum in Berlin. Published in Afterimage.

中国- 艺术和设计- Goethe-Institut

Jun 26, 2014 ... Sarah Goodrum über: James, Sarah E.: Common Ground. German Photographic Cultures Across the Iron Curtain. New Haven 2013....

The photographic portraits that compose Mirjana Vrbaski’s series “Verses of Emptiness” (2011) depict women in neutral light and nondescript clothing with steady, quiet facial expressions. Some of the photographs are beautiful, others strained and awkward, but all are arresting and ultimately ambiguous, side-stepping obvious emotional, cultural, or temporal codes. These images do not primarily distinguish themselves in terms of style; they intervene in the history of the photographic portrait ethically more than aesthetically. They recall the theories of Roland Barthes and Walter Benjamin concerning the ontology of photography and the formation of our relationship to it as both subjects and viewers in the early days of the medium...

Lagos - Visual Arts - Goethe-Institut

Theater Review: "Trio" At Lounge 2 | Neon Tommy

My LA to Z: Ruth Weisberg - Los Angeles Magazine

See painter Ruth Weisberg create present from past at the Norton Simon Museum. By Sarah Goodrum 11/26/2008. Like it? Tweet it! SHARE IT! In “Guido ......

My LA to Z: Chandra Watson - Los Angeles Magazine