The Photography of Crisis: The Photo Essays of Weimar Germany
by Magilow, Daniel H.Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2012-11-22
Publisher(s): Pennsylvania State Univ Pr
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Summary
"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"--
Table of Contents
| List of Illustrations | p. ix |
| Acknowledgments | p. xiii |
| Introduction: The Photography of Crisis: The Visual Turn and the Photo Essays of Weimar Germany | p. 1 |
| The New Receptivity and the New Photographer | p. 16 |
| The Illustrated Press and the Photo Essay | p. 34 |
| The Modernist Photobook: The Nature of Nature | p. 63 |
| Photographic Physiognomies: Diagnosing Germanness | p. 92 |
| The Snapshot and the Moment of Decision | p. 119 |
| Epilogue: Crisis, Photographed: The Afterlife of the Weimar Photo Essay | p. 147 |
| Notes | p. 153 |
| Bibliography | p. 163 |
| Index | p. 173 |
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