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The Photography of Crisis

Name: The Photography of Crisis
Brand: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
SKU: 9780271054223
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PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESSISBN: 9780271054223

The Photo Essays of Weimar Germany

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By Daniel H. Magilow
Imprint: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Release Date: January 14, 2013
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Pages: 200

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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.

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Photography of Crisis

1 The New Receptivity and the New Photographer

2 The Illustrated Press and the Photo Essay

3 The Modernist Photobook: The Nature of Nature

4 Photographic Physiognomies: Diagnosing Germanness

5 The Snapshot and the Moment of Decision

Epilogue: Crisis, Photographed

Notes

Bibliography

Index

“[The Photography of Crisis] is a thoughtfully and elegantly argued contribution to Weimar photo history.”

—Sabine T. Kriebel, caa.reviews

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