#sobidor

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Max van Dam - selfportrait - 1939

Max van Dam (March 19, 1910 – c. September 20, 1943) was a Dutch artist born in Winterswijk. He was murdered in the Sobibor extermination camp.

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R.I.P. Rutger Hauer (January 23, 1944 - July 24, 2019)

The world-weary gaze and sculpted features of Rutger Hauer made his face one of the most compelling countenances in genre film history, whether he was portraying haunted souls of broken nobility (Blade Runner, Ladyhawke, Blind Fury, Escape from Sobibor), malevolent men on a mission (Nighthawks, The Hitcher, Hobo with a Shotgun, Buffy the Vampire Slayer) or corrupt manipulators long hidden behind a handsome facade (Sin City, The Osterman Weekend, Batman Begins).

His most famous screen moment might have been in Ridley Scott’s sci-fi masterpiece Blade Runnerin 1982. Hauer portrayed a replicant, a synthetic man with a mayfly lifespan and the brooding angst of a Hamlet hatched in a laboratory. Hauer wrote his most memorable lines, which come as he fades into the twilight of existence.

“I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain…”

Rutger Hauer as Ravn in The Last Kingdom (BBC / Carnival Films)

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Ori Gersht, “Hide and Seek: If Not Now When #01″, 2008.

Lambda print 42 1/2 x 98 3/4 in (108 x 250 cm.)