The Ethics of Seeing : : Photography and Twentieth-Century German History / / ed. by Jennifer Evans, Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann, Paul Betts.
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 bri...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2018 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2018] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in German History ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (306 p.) |
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Table of 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