Jeffrey Ladd – The Awful German Language art theory public spaces

public spaces

accompanied by fragments of text that record the conversation they had with their driver

what is the legacy of Tropicália today

one of aborted eternities and slackened certainties – to situations which reveal the disintegration of permanences

Jeffrey Ladd – The Awful German Language art theory public spacesIn 2011 the American photographer Jeffrey Ladd moved to Cologne, Germany, and began photographing his surroundings while learning the basics of the German language. In the process, he collected lists of interesting German vocabulary words (professions, places, things, common terms, and the outdated), which he juxtaposes with his black and white photographs; two different types of language one visual, one verbal describing a sense of his new home.