The ethics of seeing : photography and twentieth-century German history / edited by Jennifer Evans, Paul Betts, and Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Evans, Jennifer V., 1970- editor.

Betts, Paul, 1963- editor.

Hoffmann, Stefan-Ludwig, editor.

Series:

Studies in German history ; v. 21.

Studies in German history ; volume 21

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Photography--Germany--History--20th century.

Photography.

Photography--Moral and ethical aspects--Germany--History--20th century.

Photography in historiography.

Photography--Moral and ethical aspects.

History.

Germany--History--20th century.

Germany.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xi, 293 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, 2018.

Contents:

Thoughts on photography and the practice of history / Elizabeth Edwards

Seeing the 'savage' and the suspension of time : photography, war and concentration camps in southwest Africa, 1904-1908 / Claudia Siebrecht

The "face of war" in Weimar visual culture / Annelie Ramsbrock

Documenting Heimkehr : photography, displacement and "homecoming" in the Nazi resettlement of ethnic Germans, 1939-1940 / Elizabeth Harvey

Visible trophies of war : German occupiers' photographic perceptions of France, 1940-44 / Julia Torrie

Gazing at ruins : German defeat as visual experience / Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann

Edmund Kesting's polyphonic portraits & the abstract face of the socialist self in East Germany / Sarah E. James

Seeing subjectivity : erotic photograph and the optics of desire / Jennifer Evans

Photographing reurbanization in West Berlin, 1977-84 / Anna Ross

The diversification of East Germany's visual culture / Candice M. Hamelin

The intimacy of revolution : 1989 in pictures / Paul Betts.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Ethics of seeing

ISBN:

9781785337284

1785337289

OCLC:

1008762990