Down the Rabbit Hole - Week 12

image: Bud Parr

August Sander Exhibition

This feels like a big deal: Yale University Art Gallery will host an exhibition of over 600 images from August Sander's People of the 20th Century from February 27 to June 28, 2026.

A black-and-white photograph of a group of people posing for the camera outdoors. Two adults are seated toward the center, alongside two standing children. Three adults stand behind them. The man at far right holds a guitar, with a dog laying at his feet. The men wear three-piece suits and the women long skirts with textured or patterned tops. — August Sander, *Bauernfamilie (Farming Family)*, 1912, printed 1990s by Gerd Sander. Gelatin silver print. Yale University Art Gallery, Société Anonyme Acquisition Fund and Katharine Ordway Fund. © Die Photographische Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur—August Sander Archiv, Cologne/ARS, NY 2025

Raymond Meeks

I've recently been studying the work of Raymond Meeks whose work encapsulates, for me, the idea of the personal as universal. Here are a couple of good conversations with him.

“Pay attention, cultivate empathy”