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Peter BialobrzeskiPeter Bialobrzeskis neuestes Projekt Informal Arrangements zeigt Innenansichten sdafrikanischer Slumhtten. Die Fotos entstanden 2009 in Kliptown, einem Vorort von Soweto. 1955 verabschiedeten hier Mitglieder der Anti Apartheid Bewegung die Freedom Charter, ein Zehn Punkte Programm, das bis 1990 verboten blieb und heute einen wesentlichen Teil der sdafrikanischen Verfassung darstellt. Trotz des historischen Auftrags hat sich die Lebenssituation der
Peter Bialobrzeskis neuestes Projekt Informal Arrangements zeigt Innenansichten südafrikanischer Slumhütten. Die Fotos entstanden 2009 in Kliptown, einem Vorort von Soweto. 1955 verabschiedeten hier Mitglieder der Anti-Apartheid-Bewegung die »Freedom Charter«, ein Zehn-Punkte-Programm, das bis 1990 verboten blieb und heute einen wesentlichen Teil der südafrikanischen Verfassung darstellt. Trotz des historischen Auftrags hat sich die Lebenssituation der Bewohner informeller Siedlungen in den vergangenen 20 Jahren kaum verbessert. Soccer City, Johannesburgs neues, extra für die WM 2010 gebautes Fußballstadion, ist weniger als zehn Kilometer Luftlinie entfernt. Eine Eintrittskarte auf dem internationalen Markt ist teurer als die gesamte Einrichtung einer Hütte auf den Fotos von Peter Bialobrzeski. Die Bilder erzählen von dem Wunsch, das Heim mit den wenigen zur Verfügung stehenden Mitteln wohnlich zu organisieren.Peter Bialobrzeski (*1961 in Wolfsburg) studierte 1988-1993 Kommunikationsdesign mit Schwerpunkt Fotografie an der Folkwangschule Essen und am London College of Printing. Seine Arbeiten wurden in Europa, den USA, Asien und Afrika ausgestellt. Er erhielt zahlreiche Preise und Auszeichnungen, darunter 2003 und 2010 World Press Photo Award, 2004, 2006 und 2010 Deutscher Fotobuchpreis, 2004 "Schönste deutsche Bücher", 2012 Dr.-Erich-Salomon-Preis der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Photographie (DGPh). Seit 2002 Professur für Fotografie an der Hochschule für Künste in Bremen. Peter Bialobrzeski lebt in Hamburg.Peter Bialobrzeski (*1961 in Wolfsburg) studierte 1988-1993 Kommunikationsdesign mit Schwerpunkt Fotografie an der Folkwangschule Essen und am London College of Printing. Seine Arbeiten wurden in Europa, den USA, Asien und Afrika ausgestellt. Er erhielt zahlreiche Preise und Auszeichnungen, darunter 2003 und 2010 World Press Photo Award, 2004, 2006 und 2010 Deutscher Fotobuchpreis, 2004 "Schönste deutsche Bücher", 2012 Dr.-Erich-Salomon-Preis der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Photographie (DGPh). Seit 2002 Professur für Fotografie an der Hochschule für Künste in Bremen. Peter Bialobrzeski lebt in Hamburg.
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★★★★★ 5
Guided tour through a difficult work
Format: Paperback
For the non-expert reader of Plato, this is a very good text for working through Timaeus. Actually, it may be useful to expert readers as well, but I wouldn't know about that, being firmly situated in the non-expert camp. Though some scholars may take exception to certain parts of Cornford's translation and interpretation, for those of us trying to get through it for the first time and on our own, this is still an exceptional guide. By the way, for an alternative translation and interpretation, the reader may want to check out Kalkavage's translation (Focus Philosophical Library), it is very good (I would rate it 5 stars also) and has some extremely helpful appendices for understanding references to music, astronomy, and geometry.
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Reviewed in the United States on January 6, 2013
★★★★★ 5
Cornford's Plato Cosmology/Timaeus
Format: Paperback
This is an excellent and invaluable reference book for Plato's Timaeus. If you are reading Timaeus you MUST have this book. It contains line-by-line commentary, and also, most valuable, some very helpful illustrations (example: illustration of the human body as Timaeus explained it). I would, however, balance this book with other books that attempt to place Timaeus within the rest of Plato's works. I recommend, for example, Peter Kalkavage's Timaeus. There, he attempts to link Timaeus and Republic.
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Reviewed in the United States on February 8, 2011
★★★★★ 5
An Excellent Choice
Format: Paperback
Excellent introduction, notes and translation.
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Reviewed in the United States on June 8, 2017
★★★★★ 5
Five Stars
Format: Paperback
Professor Cornford's translation with running commentary is definitive.
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Reviewed in the United States on November 5, 2015
★★★★★ 5
Plato's dialogue about the physical world
Format: Paperback
The two biggest topics in the Timaeus are astronomy and the elements of bodies, which are constructed using triangles and the tetrahedron, octahedron, icosahedron, and cube. I would like to see a translation of the Timaeus that uses it as a way to introduce all the astronomy that appears in the dialogue. Introducing the astronomy does not mean just talking in words about spheres or the zodiac or the ecliptic, but actually explaining how these were used by astronomers. Cornford has much to say, but to someone who has not learned any Greek astronomy his commentary will be opaque and hard to use. I didn't know the astronomy well enough to readily understand Cornford's explanations. I plan to learn more classical Greek astronomy, perhaps using Evans'
, and then read Waterfield's translation of the Timaeus
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Before reading this you should have read the Republic and know some classical Greek natural philosophy, mathematics, and astronomy. Although Cornford's commentary makes the dialogue staccato, I am glad for it because I wouldn't otherwise have understood much of what Plato says. The Timaeus and the Parmenides are the two dialogues of Plato that one needs commentary to understand; the Parmenides demands the commentary because so much of what is happening depends on the original language, and the Timaeus demands the commentary because of all the things the reader is supposed to be familiar with.
The following is a list of topics I kept while reading the dialogue: theory of Forms 27d-28a, 51a-52a; harmonics 35b-36b; time 37c-38e, 39b-e; vision 45b-46c, 67c-68d; space 52b; surfaces 53c; weight 62d-63e; sound 67a-67c; physiology 70c-79e, 80d-86a; antiperistasis 79e-80c.
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Reviewed in the United States on December 12, 2015