The Genius of Photography 摄影演义后传- 5 SUW中国英语学习网
In the course of our 170 year relationship, photography has delighted us, served us, moved us, outraged us and occasionally disappointed us. But mainly, it has intrigued us by showing the secret strangeness that lies beneath the world of appearances. And that is photography's true genius. SUW中国英语学习网
For all its apparent rigor, there's an oddball quirkiness to Sander's system.SUW中国英语学习网
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“Hahaha, they could well be farm workers who box in their spare time or something. I would never have Sander written off as the dispassionate observer scientist. You can't be, you know. When you prick that, that butterfly with a pin, that is, you know, there's, there's an electric charge there, and it's just the same as when you press that shutter.”SUW中国英语学习网
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“He shows you so much about how these people want to be seen, and at the same time, so little about what's actually going on inside their minds, and yet it's full of implications, it's full of hints. There is all the way through Sander's best work, sense of a world that's pregnant with things that cannot be spoken of.”SUW中国英语学习网
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The unspoken that lies behind Sander's pictures is the chaotic condition of Germany in the 1920s. The Weimar Republic was a society in meltdown: hyperinflation, mass unemployment, political violence on the streets. All of Sander's subjects would have lived with the consequences of that chaos.SUW中国英语学习网
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“Let's find the Notary. Here is this notary who, who stands erect with his dog, in an overcoat. And it seems to me that the overcoat is perhaps the most eloquent thing in the picture, and the, the reason why is that it would once have been an elegant coat, but it's begun to lose its shape, and yet the notary fills it out as if he is an oak tree, he fills it out as if it hasn't changed in any way. And so to me, what this is a photograph of, is a man who attempts to preserve his position, at least for the camera, to say to the photographer, to say whoever is going to see this picture, 'I am no less than I always was, which is a person you should respect.'”SUW中国英语学习网
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“One of the Sander photographs I love most is, is this picture of a woman in her late twenties, perhaps early thirties, and her baby and a little black Pomeranian dog sitting in the grass, and the child sits there hopeful and, and quite trusting with his apple there in the hands. And then in the expression of this, the mother is knowledge of something much more, something that she won't tell us about, something she can't tell us about. And, and I sometimes feel, looking at the face of this woman, about whom I know nothing other than, than this, what she shows me on her face, I sometimes feel that this woman is saying, to me, the viewer, that ‘there's nothing you can do to help me.'”SUW中国英语学习网
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Vocabulary:SUW中国英语学习网
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oddball: An eccentric person; one who doesn't act like everyone else SUW中国英语学习网
John is an oddballSUW中国英语学习网
quirkiness: 诡诈, 离奇SUW中国英语学习网
As a style of art, Chu art is origin of modern art according to the study on silk pictures, bronze vessel, lacquer, silk and carve, we get the Chu art's verve of magnificent and floweriness, unearthliness and quirkiness, charming and passion.SUW中国英语学习网
通过对楚艺术中的帛画、青铜器、漆器、丝绸、雕刻等了解,我们可以感受到楚艺术瑰丽绚烂、神秘诡异以及浪漫激烈的精神特质和神韵。SUW中国英语学习网
Weimar Republic: the first German republic, which was established in 1919 at a meeting in the city of Weimar. It faced difficult economic problems, including very high inflation, and ended when Hitler took control of the country in 1933.SUW中国英语学习网
hyperinflation: a very fast rise in prices that seriously damages a country's economy SUW中国英语学习网
恶性通货膨胀SUW中国英语学习网
no less than: (conj) 正如SUW中国英语学习网
Pomeranian:波美拉尼亚的SUW中国英语学习网
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