French symphonic/gothic metallers WHYZDOM have entered the studio to begin recording their third album Video footage of the drum-tracking sessions for the new CD can be seen below WHYZDOM last year parted ways with singer Elvyne Lorient for "professional" reasons and replaced her with Marie Rouyer Rouyer made her live debut with WHYZDOM on March 8 2013 at the Night Of The Beauties festival in Herdorf (near Siegen),Germany recorded and mixed in Paris at Powermania Studio and mastered by Mathieu Gillon and Vynce Leff at 120dB Studio The stunning artwork is a collaboration between X-Nihilo Design came out in September 2009 via Ascendance Records Look out for your first newsletter in your inbox soon We help you navigate a myriad of possibilities Sign up for our newsletter for the best of the city By entering your email address you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy and consent to receive emails from Time Out about news Sign up for our email to enjoy your city without spending a thing (as well as some options when you’re feeling flush) Our newsletter hand-delivers the best bits to your inbox Sign up to unlock our digital magazines and also receive the latest news By entering your email address you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy and consent to receive emails from Time Out about news, events, offers and partner promotions. Barcelona This is the biggest solo exhibition of works by the renowned German photographer August Sander (Herdorf as well as one of the most exhaustive reviews to date in all of Europe In addition to the 184 photographs organized according to Sander's typological schemes a series is also on show that's rarely been exhibited before that shows images of gestures looks and bodily postures of some of the people portrayed Thanks for subscribing! Look out for your first newsletter in your inbox soon! facebook twitter spotify tiktok About us Contact us Time Out Worldwide 2013 the Fondazione Stelline of Milan will be hosting a great exhibition that brings together the German photographer August Sander (Herdorf one of the most important figures of 20th Century photography with contemporary American photographer Michael Somoroff (New York organised and promoted by Fondazione Stelline in collaboration with ADMIRA taken from the celebrated series People of the 20th Century and 40 photographs by Somoroff accompanied by 8 video which represent a moving tribute to the work of the German maestro People of the 20th Century was gradually created by Sander as a sort of catalogue of mankind that represents a pluralistic vision of the society of the Republic of Weimar far removed from the myth of the Aryan race The series is divided into seven sections: Farmers Somoroff took these photographs and modified them from a conceptual point of view digitally erasing the human figures to reveal the essence of the places – silent streets or empty interiors – and emphasise the relationship between man’s presence and his environment From each of the original shots Somoroff removed what might be considered the ‘essential element’ – the subject the portrait – keeping only the surroundings which to Sander represented a secondary element and the photographs are transformed into works conceived in a completely new way Somoroff has been able to reveal the essence of the settings and the intrinsic relationship between man and his environment but it shows how deeply Somoroff has understood the lesson of the German maestro who refused to be limited to the mere portraitism that was common to part of the photography of his day Thus Somoroff demonstrates the persuasive and aesthetic power of Sander even in the absence of the human subject; while he successfully conveys the horror vacui of quiet streets or the silence of empty rooms in houses the representation of the features typical of the society to which they belong remains unaltered “Absence of Subject is a poignant homage to the photographer August Sander’s monumental work People of the 20th Century (Menschen des 20 Jarhunderts) It is a thoughtful and passionate meditation on memory Born in 1876 in the German mining town of Herdorf August Sander discovered photography while working at a local slagheap Serendipitously meeting a landscape photographer working there for a mining company and by 1909 had opened his own studio in Cologne Around this time he also started taking portraits of his fellow-Germans deliberately eschewing the then-prevalent pictorialist approach in favour of recording as much detail as possible “Nothing seemed to me more appropriate than to project an image of our time with absolute fidelity to nature by means of photography,” he stated “Let me speak the truth in all honesty about our age and the people of our age.” This work evolved into his decades-long project People of the 20th Century now considered a seminal photographic work People of the 20th Century set out to show ‘The Farmer’ and in doing so revealed Germany’s ethnic and class diversity Sander showed about 100 of his photographs at the Kölnischer Kunstverein in an exhibition titled People of the 20th Century: A Cultural Work in Photographic Pictures; in 1929 he published his first book As the Nazi regime took control his work and personal life became constrained and in 1936 Face of our Time was seized and the photographic plates destroyed In 1942 he left Cologne and moved to the countryside hoping to save his negatives; in 1944 his studio was destroyed in a bombing raid 30,000 of his approximately 40,000 negatives survived the war but they were then destroyed in an accidental fire in Cologne in 1946 Sander did very little photographic work after World War Two Hauser & Wirth London is showing a large exhibition of Sander’s work called Men Without Masks which focuses on images made from 1910 – 1931 Alongside images from People of the 20th Century the exhibition features 81 of the 110 original oversized prints produced by Sander’s son Günther for the book Men without Masks published in 1971 and for the accompanying exhibition in Mannheim in 1973 “These portraits paint a picture of Germany’s complex socio-economic landscape in the years leading up to and through the Weimar Republic and laid the framework for People of the 20th Century,” says curator Olivier Renaud-Clément unembellished photographic aesthetic that was formative to the establishment of the medium’s independence from painting and presaged conceptual art,” he continues “The artist considered empathy toward his sitters to be critical to his work and strove not to impose a portrayal upon an unwilling subject “This is an exhibition of works that should help viewers to ponder and reflect upon our time and the role each human plays,” says Renaud-Clément “It should expand beyond the medium itself and enter the pantheon of the greatest artist of all time.” Another exhibition of Sander’s work is on show in Paris at the Mémorial de la Shoah until 15 November, titled August Sander – Persécutés/persécuteurs, des Hommes du XXe siecle https://expo-photo-sander.memorialdelashoah.org/ an occasional roundup of the best Heavy Metal News features and pictures curated by our global MetalTalk team MetalTalk is Europe's leading independent Heavy Metal news publication For more details, contact Steve Ritchie at Editor@MetalTalk.Net is owned and managed by MetalTalk and must not be used elsewhere without written permission