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9780271054223

The Photography of Crisis: The Photo Essays of Weimar Germany

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  • ISBN13:

    9780271054223

  • ISBN10:

    0271054220

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2012-11-22
  • Publisher: 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 Illustrationsp. ix
Acknowledgmentsp. xiii
Introduction: The Photography of Crisis: The Visual Turn and the Photo Essays of Weimar Germanyp. 1
The New Receptivity and the New Photographerp. 16
The Illustrated Press and the Photo Essayp. 34
The Modernist Photobook: The Nature of Naturep. 63
Photographic Physiognomies: Diagnosing Germannessp. 92
The Snapshot and the Moment of Decisionp. 119
Epilogue: Crisis, Photographed: The Afterlife of the Weimar Photo Essayp. 147
Notesp. 153
Bibliographyp. 163
Indexp. 173
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