German Photography, 1870-1970 Power of a Medium

Name: German Photography, 1870-1970 Power of a Medium
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ISBN: 9780300071726

ISBN-10: 0300071728

ISBN-13: 9780300071726

Edition: 1997

Authors: Klaus Honnef, Rolf Sachsse, Karin Thomas

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Long overshadowed by other art forms Germany produced a wide range of photographers who covered journalism, fashion and advertising as well as propaganda and art for art's sake. This book examines their work and the use and abuse of it.

Book details

List price: $70.00
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 6/25/1997
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 296
Size: 10.50" wide x 11.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 4.488
Language: English



Foreword and Acknowledgements


A Concept of German Photography


German Photography - Mirror of the German mindset?


1870-1918


Images of the Kaiserreich: The social and political import of photographs


The Art Photography Movement around 1900: Painting as a model


1918-1933


Images of Revolution and the Weimar Republic


Photojournalism from the First World War to the Weimar Republic


1933-1945


Images of the National Socialist State


Photography as NS State Design: Power's abuse of a medium


"... without masks": Jews through the lens of "German photography" 1933-1945


1945-1970


The Federal Republic of Germany: Examples from the History of Everyday Life


The Smiling Face of Dictatorship: On the political iconography of the GDR


From Reality to Art: Photography between profession and abstraction


Up And Running: Industrial products and advertising


Plates


Photographs in the exhibition


Biographical and bibliographical notes on the photographers presented in the exhibition


Photographic acknowledgements