What is so special about these classic modern architecture motifs is that all these photographs a... more What is so special about these classic modern architecture motifs is that all these photographs are picture postcards. The collection shows world-famous modern architecture motifs from Hamburg and Stuttgart, Cologne and Brelau as well as views of hospital wards and nightclubs, administration buildings and public swimming baths, large-scale housing projects and exhibition pavilions.
Weibel presents 23 Austrian and international artists' installations in shop windows as a typ... more Weibel presents 23 Austrian and international artists' installations in shop windows as a type of iconography of the city. Visual documentation of the work is accompanied by artist's statements. In German only.
Four essays (in German only) accompany reproductions of works representing flowers by 48 artists,... more Four essays (in German only) accompany reproductions of works representing flowers by 48 artists, from various periods and disciplines. Biographical notes. Circa 250 bibl. ref
Around 1900, Marie Goslich (1859–1938) was one of the earliest female photo reporters of her age.... more Around 1900, Marie Goslich (1859–1938) was one of the earliest female photo reporters of her age. After 1905, she began to publish larger essays illustrated with her own photographs. Her publications were either descriptions of the social situation in the countryside near Berlin, helpful essays for Berlin housewives on new kitchen aids or female clothing in reform fashion. Thus, she can be considered as a part of the conservative feminism typical for the majority of the Berlin bourgeoisie under Emperor Wilhelm II. This includes her engagement in and the support by the Protestant church which becomes most evident in her work throughout World War I. Her subjects ranged from typical views of the urban spectator on rural practices like hay making, social reports on the situation of vagrant people to the introduction of modern communication media. With a strong emphasis on sports, nutrition, and health in general, her work represents the urban view on rural affairs. Marie Goslich’s photo...
The sequences are too well known to be displayed here in photographic reproductions: whenever ath... more The sequences are too well known to be displayed here in photographic reproductions: whenever athletes are shown in Leni Riefenstahl’s Olympia film from 1938, their bright costumes shine in the sun against a dark sky, adding to the potency of the scene — a potency already reinforced by the low camera angle and the dynamics of their movements. No type of image better illustrates the Janus-like state of modern photography under the National Socialist regime. The form and composition are utterly..
What is so special about these classic modern architecture motifs is that all these photographs a... more What is so special about these classic modern architecture motifs is that all these photographs are picture postcards. The collection shows world-famous modern architecture motifs from Hamburg and Stuttgart, Cologne and Brelau as well as views of hospital wards and nightclubs, administration buildings and public swimming baths, large-scale housing projects and exhibition pavilions.
Weibel presents 23 Austrian and international artists' installations in shop windows as a typ... more Weibel presents 23 Austrian and international artists' installations in shop windows as a type of iconography of the city. Visual documentation of the work is accompanied by artist's statements. In German only.
Four essays (in German only) accompany reproductions of works representing flowers by 48 artists,... more Four essays (in German only) accompany reproductions of works representing flowers by 48 artists, from various periods and disciplines. Biographical notes. Circa 250 bibl. ref
Around 1900, Marie Goslich (1859–1938) was one of the earliest female photo reporters of her age.... more Around 1900, Marie Goslich (1859–1938) was one of the earliest female photo reporters of her age. After 1905, she began to publish larger essays illustrated with her own photographs. Her publications were either descriptions of the social situation in the countryside near Berlin, helpful essays for Berlin housewives on new kitchen aids or female clothing in reform fashion. Thus, she can be considered as a part of the conservative feminism typical for the majority of the Berlin bourgeoisie under Emperor Wilhelm II. This includes her engagement in and the support by the Protestant church which becomes most evident in her work throughout World War I. Her subjects ranged from typical views of the urban spectator on rural practices like hay making, social reports on the situation of vagrant people to the introduction of modern communication media. With a strong emphasis on sports, nutrition, and health in general, her work represents the urban view on rural affairs. Marie Goslich’s photo...
The sequences are too well known to be displayed here in photographic reproductions: whenever ath... more The sequences are too well known to be displayed here in photographic reproductions: whenever athletes are shown in Leni Riefenstahl’s Olympia film from 1938, their bright costumes shine in the sun against a dark sky, adding to the potency of the scene — a potency already reinforced by the low camera angle and the dynamics of their movements. No type of image better illustrates the Janus-like state of modern photography under the National Socialist regime. The form and composition are utterly..
Photography in the Third Reich: Art, Physiognomy and Propaganda, 2021
This lucid and comprehensive collection of essays by an international group of scholars constitut... more This lucid and comprehensive collection of essays by an international group of scholars constitutes a photo-historical survey of select photographers who embraced National Socialism during the Third Reich. These photographers developed and implemented physiognomic and ethnographic photography, and, through a Selbstgleichschaltung (a self-co-ordination with the regime), continued to practice as photographers throughout the twelve years of the Third Reich.
The volume explores, through photographic reproductions and accompanying analysis, diverse aspects of photography during the Third Reich, ranging from the influence of Modernism, the qualitative effect of propaganda photography, and the utilisation of technology such as colour film, to the photograph as ideological metaphor. With an emphasis on the idealised representation of the German body and the role of physiognomy within this representation, the book examines how select photographers created and developed a visual myth of the ‘master race’ and its antitheses under the auspices of the Nationalist Socialist state. Photography in the Third Reich approaches its historical source photographs as material culture, examining their production, construction and proliferation. This detailed and informative text will be a valuable resource not only to historians studying the Third Reich, but to scholars and students of film, history of art, politics, media studies, cultural studies and holocaust studies.
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The volume explores, through photographic reproductions and accompanying analysis, diverse aspects of photography during the Third Reich, ranging from the influence of Modernism, the qualitative effect of propaganda photography, and the utilisation of technology such as colour film, to the photograph as ideological metaphor. With an emphasis on the idealised representation of the German body and the role of physiognomy within this representation, the book examines how select photographers created and developed a visual myth of the ‘master race’ and its antitheses under the auspices of the Nationalist Socialist state. Photography in the Third Reich approaches its historical source photographs as material culture, examining their production, construction and proliferation. This detailed and informative text will be a valuable resource not only to historians studying the Third Reich, but to scholars and students of film, history of art, politics, media studies, cultural studies and holocaust studies.
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