Jur Kuipers
Een illustratie: Hitler bespeelt de orgel met “doden-carousel”
Drie jaar later, in april 1941, staat Hitler opnieuw op de omslag van TIME, zittend in een stoel.
Als je Donald Trump en Adolf Hitler zo naast elkaar ziet zitten, merkt Emily Keegin op, is er sprake van “symmetrie” waarvan moeilijk te geloven is dat hier sprake is van toeval.
Anne Helen Petersen van BuzzFeed heeft er ook een mening over, ze vraagt zich af of het “winnen” van die titel bij TIME zo langzamerhand nog wel een “eer” te noemen is…:
Donald Trump And The End Of “Time”
TIME’s “Person Of The Year” Cover Is More Cutting Than You Think
There’s a dark historical connection that shouldn’t be overlooked.
By Emily Keegin
This morning TIME Magazine announced Donald Trump as their “Person of the Year”. While the nod was not at all surprising — the cover is not necessarily given to the “best” person of the year — it has still garnered a significant amount of outrage. This frustration is a little misplaced.
The cover was captured by celebrity photographer Nadav Kander and when seen alone the Trump cover reads as a standard Kander portrait: classic, serious, and draped in blue. But there’s an unspoken coldness to this TIME image — there’s a heavy darkness that settles around that glaring yellow face, a shadow hovers over his left shoulder, and the chair’s fabric is worn and tattered. When seen In the context of the magazine’s history, these photographic choices may hint at a larger, darker, editorial intention that places the cover along a much more chilling historical arc.
TIME notoriously named Hitler “Person of the Year” in 1938, a fact everyone seems to site whenever the “Person of the Year” issue rolls around. That cover is an illustration of the dictator with his dog. But TIME also put Hitler on their cover in April 1941 and it’s this cover that stands out to me as a reference for this year’s Trump shoot.
When seen side by side the similarity between these two images, above, is striking — the shadow against the wall, the mimicked gestures, and far away gaze. Even the monotone nature of the images is important here. Notice the way the walls match the color of the suits. There is a symmetry here that is hard to believe was accidental.
The main difference between the images of course is that Trump is facing forward. With his back to us, he’s in the driver’s seat leading us into the darkness. It’s this reality that we should be outraged by.
This morning TIME Magazine announced Donald Trump as their “Person of the Year”. While the nod was not at all surprising — the cover is not necessarily given to the “best” person of the year — it has still garnered a significant amount of outrage. This frustration is a little misplaced.
The cover was captured by celebrity photographer Nadav Kander and when seen alone the Trump cover reads as a standard Kander portrait: classic, serious, and draped in blue. But there’s an unspoken coldness to this TIME image — there’s a heavy darkness that settles around that glaring yellow face, a shadow hovers over his left shoulder, and the chair’s fabric is worn and tattered. When seen In the context of the magazine’s history, these photographic choices may hint at a larger, darker, editorial intention that places the cover along a much more chilling historical arc.
TIME notoriously named Hitler “Person of the Year” in 1938, a fact everyone seems to site whenever the “Person of the Year” issue rolls around. That cover is an illustration of the dictator with his dog. But TIME also put Hitler on their cover in April 1941 and it’s this cover that stands out to me as a reference for this year’s Trump shoot.
When seen side by side the similarity between these two images, above, is striking — the shadow against the wall, the mimicked gestures, and far away gaze. Even the monotone nature of the images is important here. Notice the way the walls match the color of the suits. There is a symmetry here that is hard to believe was accidental.
The main difference between the images of course is that Trump is facing forward. With his back to us, he’s in the driver’s seat leading us into the darkness. It’s this reality that we should be outraged by.
Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer – De nachtmerrie moet nog beginnen
(NRC, 17 november 2016)
De grootste fout die we kunnen maken is om in al onze elitaire genuanceerdheid begrip te gaan lopen opbrengen voor de onderbuikgevoelens van de gefrustreerde nitwits die tien dagen geleden hun stem hebben uitgebracht op Trump of voor hun geestverwanten in ons eigen land die overwegen om over een paar maanden een stem uit te brengen op Wilders.
Dat is wel het domste wat we kunnen doen. Onwetendheid moeten we niet begripvol bejegenen, maar bestrijden.
Lügenpresse
Rosie Gray – The Alt-Right Has Adopted An Old Nazi Term For Reporters
(BuzzFeed, 24 oktober 2016)
Adam Chandler- The ‘Worst’ German Word of the Year
(The Atlantic, 14 januari 2015)
