Emblems of the Passing World

August Sander s photographic portraits of ordinary people in Weimar Germany inspire this uncanny new collection of poems by one of America s most celebrated writers and critics
Through his portraits of ordinary people soldiers, housewives, children, peasants, and city dwellers August Sander, the [...]
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August Sander s photographic portraits of ordinary people in Weimar Germany inspire this uncanny new collection of poems by one of America s most celebrated writers and critics
Through his portraits of ordinary people soldiers, housewives, children, peasants, and city dwellers August Sander, the German photographer whose work chronicled the extreme tensions and transitions of the twentieth century, captured a moment in history whose consequences he himself couldn t have predicted. Using these photographs as a lens, Adam Kirsch s poems connectthe legacy of the First World War with the turmoil of the Weimar Republic with moving immediacy and meditative insight, andforeshadow the Nazi era.Kirsch writes both urgently and poignantly about these photographs, creating a unique dialogue of word and imagethat will speak to all readers interested in history, past and present."