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The Ethics of Seeing : Photography and Twentieth-Century German History / ed. by Jennifer Evans, Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann, Paul Betts.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in German History ; 21Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resource (306 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781785337284
  • 9781785337291
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 770.0943 23
LOC classification:
  • TR73
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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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.

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