{"id":7175,"date":"2025-11-04T10:34:53","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T14:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/humanidades.uprrp.edu\/visiondoble\/?p=7175"},"modified":"2025-11-04T10:34:53","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T14:34:53","slug":"elegy-to-the-last-face-the-photograph-of-the-death-mask-of-erich-sander","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/humanidades.uprrp.edu\/visiondoble\/elegy-to-the-last-face-the-photograph-of-the-death-mask-of-erich-sander\/","title":{"rendered":"Elegy to the Last Face: The Photograph of the Death Mask of Erich Sander"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">August Sander. <em>Death Mask of Erich Sander.<\/em><br>1944, Museum of Modern Art, New York. \u00a9 2023 Die<br>Photographische Sammlung \/ SK Stiftung Kultur &#8211;<br>August Sander Archiv, Cologne \/ ARS, NY.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\"><strong>Texto completo \/ Full text<\/strong><br><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1sr_2EgZw830uBz9vr1y1zuoRClKwbI28\/view\">PDF\u00a0<\/a>\/\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1_J5XAN2UhMs_Wa5faEUmwwb3ulJj5EMS\/view\">EPUB<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>T\u00edtulo:<\/strong> Eleg\u00eda al rostro final: la fotograf\u00eda de la m\u00e1scara mortuoria de Erich Sander<br><strong>Title:<\/strong> Elegy to the Last Face: The Photograph of the Death Mask of Erich Sander<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><strong>Autor \/ Autho<\/strong>r: Laura Bravo L\u00f3pez<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Translated by Valeria Gonz\u00e1lez Calero<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><strong>Resumen<\/strong>: <em>Menschen des 20. Jahrhunderts (Gente del siglo XX)<\/em> es el vasto proyecto fotogr\u00e1fico que August Sander desarroll\u00f3, no sin dram\u00e1ticos obst\u00e1culos, a lo largo de cuatro d\u00e9cadas. La fotograf\u00eda que cierra este extraordinario archivo es la de la m\u00e1scara mortuoria de su hijo mayor, Erich. Esta elecci\u00f3n del fot\u00f3grafo alem\u00e1n abre una serie de distintos planteamientos que incitan a la reflexi\u00f3n, entre los que est\u00e1n la mirada del autor y su relaci\u00f3n con el sujeto protagonista, el contenido hist\u00f3rico de la imagen y su carga pol\u00edtica, su composici\u00f3n, su valor documental y de \u00edndice, su cuestionable objetividad, as\u00ed como su contexto en el marco de la fotograf\u00eda coet\u00e1nea y su simb\u00f3lica funci\u00f3n en la producci\u00f3n del artista.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><strong>Abstract<\/strong>: <em>Menschen des 20. Jahrhunderts (People of the Twentieth Century)<\/em> is the vast photographic project that August Sander developed, not without dramatic obstacles, over the span of four decades. The concluding image of this extraordinary archive is the photograph of the death mask of his eldest son Erich. The German artist\u2019s choice of photograph inspires an array of questions worthy of reflection, among which are the author\u2019s gaze and relationship with the subject as well as the image\u2019s historical content, political charge, composition, documentary and indexical quality, questionable objectivity, position within the framework of contemporary photography, and symbolic function within Sander\u2019s production.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><strong>Palabras clave<\/strong>: Fotograf\u00eda, muerte, August Sander, Erich Sander, m\u00e1scara mortuoria, \u00edndice<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Keywords<\/strong>: Photography, death, August Sander, Erich Sander, death mask, index<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Secci\u00f3n<\/strong>: Ingl\u00e9s \/ <strong>Section<\/strong>: English<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Cita recomendada<\/strong>: Bravo L\u00f3pez, Laura. \u201cElegy to the Last Face: The Photograph of the Death Mask of Erich Sander.\u201d Translated by Valeria Gonz\u00e1lez Calero, <em>Visi\u00f3n Doble: Revista de Cr\u00edtica e Historia del Arte<\/em>, 4 de noviembre de 2025, humanidades.uprrp.edu\/visiondoble<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>La versi\u00f3n original de este art\u00edculo fue publicada el 23 de agosto de 2020. Para leer la versi\u00f3n original pulse <a href=\"https:\/\/humanidades.uprrp.edu\/visiondoble\/elegia-al-rostro-final-la-fotografia-de-la-mascara-mortuoria-de-erich-sander\/\">aqu\u00ed<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Resumen: Menschen des 20. Jahrhunderts (Gente del siglo XX) es el vasto proyecto fotogr\u00e1fico que August Sander<br \/>\ndesarroll\u00f3, no sin dram\u00e1ticos obst\u00e1culos, a lo largo de cuatro d\u00e9cadas. La fotograf\u00eda que cierra este extraordinario<br \/>\narchivo es la de la m\u00e1scara mortuoria de su hijo mayor, Erich. Esta elecci\u00f3n del fot\u00f3grafo alem\u00e1n abre una serie de<br \/>\ndistintos planteamientos que incitan a la reflexi\u00f3n, entre los que est\u00e1n la mirada del autor y su relaci\u00f3n con el sujeto<br \/>\nprotagonista, el contenido hist\u00f3rico de la imagen y su carga pol\u00edtica, su composici\u00f3n, su valor documental y de \u00edndice,<br \/>\nsu cuestionable objetividad, as\u00ed como su contexto en el marco de la fotograf\u00eda coet\u00e1nea y su simb\u00f3lica funci\u00f3n en la<br \/>\nproducci\u00f3n del artista.<\/p>\n<p>Abstract: Menschen des 20. Jahrhunderts (People of the Twentieth Century) is the vast photographic project that August Sander developed, not without dramatic obstacles, over the span of four decades. The concluding image of this extraordinary archive is the photograph of the death mask of his eldest son Erich. The German artist\u2019s choice of photograph inspires an array of questions worthy of reflection, among which are the author\u2019s gaze and relationship with the subject as well as the image\u2019s historical content, political charge, composition, documentary and indexical quality, questionable objectivity, position within the framework of contemporary photography, and symbolic function within Sander\u2019s production.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7176,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[644,643,647,645,228,649,648,646,642,343],"class_list":["post-7175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-front","tag-august-sander","tag-death","tag-death-mask","tag-erich-sander","tag-fotografia","tag-index","tag-indice","tag-mascara-mortuoria","tag-muerte","tag-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/humanidades.uprrp.edu\/visiondoble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/humanidades.uprrp.edu\/visiondoble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/humanidades.uprrp.edu\/visiondoble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humanidades.uprrp.edu\/visiondoble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humanidades.uprrp.edu\/visiondoble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7175"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/humanidades.uprrp.edu\/visiondoble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7181,"href":"https:\/\/humanidades.uprrp.edu\/visiondoble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7175\/revisions\/7181"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humanidades.uprrp.edu\/visiondoble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/humanidades.uprrp.edu\/visiondoble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humanidades.uprrp.edu\/visiondoble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humanidades.uprrp.edu\/visiondoble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}