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Photography and Germany
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The idea of photography in Germany evokes everything from the pioneering modernist pictures of the Weimar era to the colossal digital prints that define art photography today. But it also recalls horrifying documents of wartime atrocities and the relentless surveillance of East German citizens. Photography and Germany broadens these perceptions by examining the medium's multi-faceted relationship with Germany's turbulent cultural, political, and social history while rethinking the notion of German photography with fresh insights on its historical context. Andrés Mario Zervigón covers this history from the region's pre-photographic experiments with light-sensitive chemicals to today's tension between analog and digital technologies. Rather than simply providing a survey of German photography, however, he focuses on how the medium, as a product of the modern age, has intervened in a fraught project of national imagining, often to productive ends but sometimes to catastrophic results. Richly illustrated with numerous previously unpublished images, Photography and Germany is the first single-authored history of photography in Germany ever published, one that deepens our broader understanding of how photography cultivates notions of a nation and its inhabitants.
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Index
Illustration numbers are in italic
advertising photography 55, 56, 58, 98, 107–12, 179–82
Albert, Joseph, ‘Group Portrait after the Final Meeting, Frankfurt am Main, 1863’ 14, 34–5
Alexander, Gertrud 114
animal-themed photo books 136
Anschütz, Ottomar 12, 68–9
Storks 34, 70
anti-Semitism 85, 122, 124, 128, 132, 133, 135, 145
April fool jokes, photographic 66, 68
Arago, Dominique François 16, 17, 22–3
Arbeiter-Illustrierte Zeitung (A-I-Z) 128
‘The A-I-Z Tells the Truth!’ 59, 112–14
Arndt, Ernst Moritz 33
Arnold, Ursula, Leipzig, Magazine Vendor 93, 174
art photography 75–6, 179–87, 189
Attie, Shimon, Writing on the Wall series 107, 194
Auerbach, Ellen (ringl + pit), Komol 55, 107–10
Augstein, Rudolf 162
Augusta, Kaiserin 22, 51
Autobahn 136
autochrome process 75
avant-garde photography
Dada movement 92–5, 160, 181
New Objectivity 96–103, 184, 199, 200
New Vision 104–7, 131, 184, 199–200
post-war 169–70, 171, 181, 184
Avenarius, Ferdinand
‘Propaganda and Truth, vol. I: The Photographic Documents’ 43, 85
Propaganda and Truth 87
Bade, Winfried, Germany Awakes 68, 131
Baedeker tour books 37, 41
Ball, Hugo 92
Barbizon painters 38
Barron, Stephanie 161
Barthes, Roland 170
Bauhaus art school 104–7, 130, 182
Bayer, Herbert 130
Becher, Bernd 182–3, 199, 200, 203
Cooling Towers Wood-Steel 99, 182
Becher, Max, ‘German Indians: Meeting’ 116, 203–4
Becher (née Wobeser), Hilla 182–3, 199, 200, 203
Cooling Towers Wood-Steel 99, 182
Beierle, Norman (Beierle + Keijser), Yoghurt Pots, an Homage 100, 182
Bellmer, Hans, The Doll 74, 142–3
Benjamin, Walter 49, 101, 104, 114
Bergemann, Sibylle
All-Kinds-of-Fur 102, 184–7
A Spectre is Leaving Europe 197
‘Untitled – Gummlin’ 109, 195–7
Berlin
Cesar Domela-Nieuwenhuis’s photomontage 131
Dada movement 92–5, 160, 181
East Berlin 176
fall of the wall 104, 187, 189, 190
light art installations 107, 194
Nollendorfplatz 88, 163–4
Radio Tower 54, 105–7
Reichstag building 105, 123, 190
slums 40, 76–9
Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung (BIZ) 66, 67, 68, 70, 87–8, 91, 134–5
Bieber, Emil, Kaiser Wilhelm II 29, 63–4
Biedermeier era 24–9
Biermann, Aenne, Ficus elastica 50, 101
Biot, Jean-Baptiste 22
Biow, Hermann 30–31, 33
Alexander von Humboldt 5, 30
The Doctor and Jurist Paul Hermann 12, 31
Bismarck, Otto von 24, 43, 47, 50, 52, 54, 76
Blackbourn, David 15
Blossfeldt, Karl 99–100
Adiantum pedatum 49, 99
Art Forms in Nature 115
Blumenfeld, The Dictator 65, 128
Bourke-White, Margaret 123, 149, 162
Ghastly View . . . Found by American Forces after they Liberated this
Camp 79, 149
Braatz, Julius, Plenipotentiary of the Bundesrat 24, 54
Brandenburg Gate 190
Brandt, Marianne 112
Self-portrait of Marianne Brandt taken in her Atelier in the Bauhaus, Dassau 42, 107
Brecht, Bertolt 101, 114
Broodthaers, Marcel 179
Die Bunte Welt (cigarette card album) 139
Bürckel, Joseph 134
cabinet cards 61
calotype (negative-positive) process (Talbot) 11, 17–19, 21–2, 23, 28, 41
Camera Work (periodical) 76
Cammenga, Nicolaas von 61–3
Capitalist Realism 178
Carol I 42–3
Carrière, Eva 37, 73
Carstensen, Pay Chr...
Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction
- one Belated Photography, 1839–1870
- two Photography and Nation, 1871–1918
- three The Weimar Era and Photo-consciousness, 1919–1932
- four The Alluring Surface, 1933–1945
- five History, the Future and Photography, 1946–1989
- six Photographic Promiscuity, 1990–2016
- References
- Select Bibliography
- Acknowledgements
- Photo Acknowledgements
- Index