- Summary
- "Photography was Reich Minister R. Walther Darré's perferred medium when it came to illustrating and disseminating his blood-and-soil ideology. Staged in front of the camera, its protagonists were athletic young peasants of both sexes who were specially trained at the Reich School Burg Neuhaus in Brunswick. Their bodies served as a projection surface for Darré's utopian notions of the 'Nordic Race' and peasantry as Germany's genetic future. The Viennese photographer Anna Koppitz, the widow of the Rudolf Koppitz, renowned in the same field as his wife, was mustered into the service of Reich Minister's project of translating Nazi ideologemes into pictures. Her works both followed in the vein of her husband's sophisticated studies of the human body and were modeled on the sports photography of that time in the stye of Leni Riefenstahl--a highly explosive mixture that was perfectly suited for the National Socialists' propaganda purposes"--Back cover.
- Uniform Title
- Im Dienst der Rassenfrage. English.
- Series
- Contributions to a history of photography in Austria ; volume 12
Fotohof edition ; Band 255
Beiträge zur Geschichte der Fotografie in Österreich ; Bd. 12.
Fotohof Edition ; Bd. 255.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- Vienna : Photoinstitut Bonartes : Albertina ; Salzburg : Fotohof edition, [2017]
©2017
- Locale
- Austria
Germany
- Edition
- First English edition
- Other Authors/Editors
- Koppitz, Anna, 1895-1989, photographer.
Vuković, Magdalena, editor.
Photoinstitut Bonartes.
Graphische Sammlung Albertina.
- Notes
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Translated from the German: Im Dienst der Rassenfrage : Anna Koppitz' Fotografien für Reichsminister Walther Darré . 2nd, revised edition. Salzburg : Fotohof edition, 2017.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 110-115) and index.
