The Photography of Crisis
The Photo Essays of Weimar Germany
Seiten
2012
Pennsylvania State University Press (Verlag)
978-0-271-05422-3 (ISBN)
Pennsylvania State University Press (Verlag)
978-0-271-05422-3 (ISBN)
Examines photo essays from Weimar Germany’s many social crises. Traces photography’s emergence as a new language that German photographers used to intervene in modernity’s key political and philosophical debates: changing notions of nature and culture, national and personal identity, and the viability of parliamentary democracy.
The fifteen years in Germany between the end of World War I and the National Socialists’ rise to power in 1933 stand out as one of the twentieth century’s most tumultuous periods. These years of political and economic upheaval famously spawned significant and lasting changes in the arts. However, one noteworthy product of Weimar Germany’s booming cultural life has escaped significant critical attention: the photo essay. The Photography of Crisis examines narrative photography and creates a snapshot of where Germany was after World War I and what it would become with the rise of National Socialism. By reading Weimar photo essays within their historical and literary context, Daniel Magilow shows how German photographers intervened in modernity’s key political and philosophical debates regarding the changing notions of nature, culture, personal identity, and national identity.
The fifteen years in Germany between the end of World War I and the National Socialists’ rise to power in 1933 stand out as one of the twentieth century’s most tumultuous periods. These years of political and economic upheaval famously spawned significant and lasting changes in the arts. However, one noteworthy product of Weimar Germany’s booming cultural life has escaped significant critical attention: the photo essay. The Photography of Crisis examines narrative photography and creates a snapshot of where Germany was after World War I and what it would become with the rise of National Socialism. By reading Weimar photo essays within their historical and literary context, Daniel Magilow shows how German photographers intervened in modernity’s key political and philosophical debates regarding the changing notions of nature, culture, personal identity, and national identity.
Daniel H. Magilow is Associate Professor of German at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Photography of Crisis
1The New Receptivity and the New Photographer
2The Illustrated Press and the Photo Essay
3The Modernist Photobook: The Nature of Nature
4Photographic Physiognomies: Diagnosing Germanness
5The Snapshot and the Moment of Decision
Epilogue: Crisis, Photographed
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 9.11.2012 |
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Zusatzinfo | 45 Halftones, black and white |
Verlagsort | University Park |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 178 x 254 mm |
Gewicht | 635 g |
Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Fotokunst |
Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile | |
Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) | |
ISBN-10 | 0-271-05422-0 / 0271054220 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-271-05422-3 / 9780271054223 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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