Overview
- 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"-- Provided by publisher.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, c2012
- Locale
- Germany
- Contents
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The new receptivity and the new photographer
The illustrated press and the photo essay
The modernist photobook : the nature of nature
Photographic physiognomies : diagnosing Germanness
The snapshot and the moment of decision. - Notes
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [163]-172) and index.
The new receptivity and the new photographer -- The illustrated press and the photo essay -- The modernist photobook : the nature of nature -- Photographic physiognomies : diagnosing Germanness -- The snapshot and the moment of decision.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780271054223
0271054220 (cloth : alk. paper) - Physical Description
- xiv, 186 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Keywords & Subjects
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- 2019-07-11 13:33:00
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