Alfredo Jaar
Alfredo Jaar was born in Santiago, Chile, in 1956, and grew up during a period of profound political upheaval that would fundamentally shape his understanding of the relationship between images, power, and human suffering. He studied film and architecture at the Instituto Chileno-Norteamericano de Cultura and the Universidad de Chile, a dual formation that equipped […]
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August Sander was born in 1876 in Herdorf, a small mining town in the Siegerland region of Germany, the son of a mine carpenter who worked the local ore deposits. The boy grew up in a landscape shaped by heavy industry and rural tradition, and his earliest understanding of the world was formed by the […]
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