#frederic brenner

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Frederic Brenner, Ellis Island, 1996 Deb Jensen

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New York Psychoanalytic Society, Photo by Frederic Brenner, 1994

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Frédéric Brenner - Lewi Faez studying in his Grandfather Jewelry Workshop

[digitaldion]

“Ideologies are a betrayal of the humane in the human. They give us the illusion of belonging while making us strangers to what is most intimate within us.... repairing the world begins by repairing the world in us.”

- Frédéric Brenner (French photographer)

This quote comes from a beautiful reflection written by my friend, and colleague, Prof Robert Vosloo in Die Burger this week. He writes,

“Met hierdie opmerking verwoord Brenner iets wesentlik aangaande die vernietigende ideologieë van die 20ste eeu en van ons eie dag. Dit gee ‘n valse gevoel van behoort deur die gebruikmaking van strategieë soos uitsluiting en die demonisering van ander. Maar die resultaat hiervan is dat ons nie net ander se menslikheid misken nie, maar ook in die proses van ons eie menslikheid vervreemd raak. Vir Brenner is dit daarom die tragedie van ideologieë en verwronge godsdienstige opvattinge dat dit die menslikheid in ons menswees verduister. Teen hierdie agtergrond is dit ‘n teken van hoop as kerke en godsdienstige gemeenskappe die bronne in hulle eie tradisies ontgin wat ons help om met erns en teerheid met die menslikheid van ander om te gaan, asook die menslikheid binne in ons.”

- Robert Vosloo, Die Beeld (12 October 2019)

Than you Robert.

[brooklynmuseum]

“When what is at stake is sharing the origin, it seems to me necessary to gather a large spectrum of individuals whose origins, passions and paradoxical and contradictory perspectives could help us grasp the unbearable complexity of this place and its voices.”  —Frédéric Brenner

Frédéric Brenner, The Weinfeld Family (2009) from his An Archeology of Fear and Desire series for This Place. 

[brooklynmuseum]

Opening one week from today—This Place will explore the complexity of Israel and the West Bank, as place and metaphor, through the eyes of twelve internationally acclaimed photographers: Frederic Brenner, Wendy Ewald, Joseph Koudelka, Rosalind Fox Solomon, Thomas Struth, and Jeff Wall.  Experience #thisplacebkm when it opens Friday, Feb 12.