The Ethics of Seeing : Photography and Twentieth-Century German History /
The Ethics of Seeing : Photography and Twentieth-Century German History /
ed. by Jennifer Evans, Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann, Paul Betts.
- 1 online resource (306 p.)
- Studies in German History ; 21 .
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction. Photography as an Ethics of Seeing -- 1. Thoughts on Photography and the Practice of History -- 2. Seeing the ‘Savage’ and the Suspension of Time -- 3. The ‘Face of War’ in Weimar Visual Culture -- 4. Documenting Heimkehr -- 5. Visible Trophies of War -- 6. Gazing at Ruins -- 7. Edmund Kesting’s Polyphonic Portraits, and the Abstract Face of the Socialist Self in East Germany -- 8. Seeing Subjectivity -- 9. Photographing Reurbanization in West Berlin, 1977–84 -- 10. The Diversification of East Germany’s Visual Culture -- 11. The Intimacy of Revolution: 1989 in Pictures -- Epilogue. Hope Flies; Death Dances -- Index
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Throughout Germany’s tumultuous twentieth century, photography was an indispensable form of documentation. Whether acting as artists, witnesses, or reformers, both professional and amateur photographers chronicled social worlds through successive periods of radical upheaval. The Ethics of Seeing brings together an international group of scholars to explore the complex relationship between the visual and the historic in German history. Emphasizing the transformation of the visual arena and the ways in which ordinary people made sense of world events, these revealing case studies illustrate photography’s multilayered role as a new form of representation, a means to subjective experience, and a fresh mode of narrating the past.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781785337284 9781785337291
10.1515/9781785337291 doi
Bundesrepublik.
DDR.
Deutschland.
Ethik.
Fotographie.
Geschichte.
Photography in historiography.
Photography--Moral and ethical aspects--History--Germany--20th century.
Photography--History--Germany--20th century.
HISTORY / Europe / Germany.
activist. aesthetics. amateur. america. art. berlin. censorship. community. concentration camps. culture. democracy. diary. documentary. ethics. ethnic. european history. everyday. exhibition. german studies. germany. government. historian. holocaust. jennifer evans. military. nazi. paul betts. photography. political. portrait. professional. representation. revolution. scholarly. socialist. society. stefan ludwig hoffmann. visual. wartime.
TR73
770.0943
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction. Photography as an Ethics of Seeing -- 1. Thoughts on Photography and the Practice of History -- 2. Seeing the ‘Savage’ and the Suspension of Time -- 3. The ‘Face of War’ in Weimar Visual Culture -- 4. Documenting Heimkehr -- 5. Visible Trophies of War -- 6. Gazing at Ruins -- 7. Edmund Kesting’s Polyphonic Portraits, and the Abstract Face of the Socialist Self in East Germany -- 8. Seeing Subjectivity -- 9. Photographing Reurbanization in West Berlin, 1977–84 -- 10. The Diversification of East Germany’s Visual Culture -- 11. The Intimacy of Revolution: 1989 in Pictures -- Epilogue. Hope Flies; Death Dances -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
Throughout Germany’s tumultuous twentieth century, photography was an indispensable form of documentation. Whether acting as artists, witnesses, or reformers, both professional and amateur photographers chronicled social worlds through successive periods of radical upheaval. The Ethics of Seeing brings together an international group of scholars to explore the complex relationship between the visual and the historic in German history. Emphasizing the transformation of the visual arena and the ways in which ordinary people made sense of world events, these revealing case studies illustrate photography’s multilayered role as a new form of representation, a means to subjective experience, and a fresh mode of narrating the past.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781785337284 9781785337291
10.1515/9781785337291 doi
Bundesrepublik.
DDR.
Deutschland.
Ethik.
Fotographie.
Geschichte.
Photography in historiography.
Photography--Moral and ethical aspects--History--Germany--20th century.
Photography--History--Germany--20th century.
HISTORY / Europe / Germany.
activist. aesthetics. amateur. america. art. berlin. censorship. community. concentration camps. culture. democracy. diary. documentary. ethics. ethnic. european history. everyday. exhibition. german studies. germany. government. historian. holocaust. jennifer evans. military. nazi. paul betts. photography. political. portrait. professional. representation. revolution. scholarly. socialist. society. stefan ludwig hoffmann. visual. wartime.
TR73
770.0943