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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2018
• MitwirkendeR: Betts, Paul,; Edwards, Elizabeth,; Evans, Jennifer,; Hamelin, Candice M.,; Harvey, Elizabeth,; Hoffmann, Stefan-Ludwig,; James, Sarah E.,; Ramsbrock, Annelie,; Ross, Anna,; Siebrecht, Claudia,; Thomas, Julia Adeney,; Torrie, Julia,
• HerausgeberIn: Betts, Paul,; Evans, Jennifer,; Hoffmann, Stefan-Ludwig,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in German History ; 21
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (306 p.)
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781785337291; 9783110998115
• DOI: 10.1515/9781785337291?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Jennifer Evans, Paul Betts, Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann.

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.