'Serving racial politics' : Anna Kopptiz's photographs fo Reich Minister R. Walther Darré / Magdalena Vuković (ed)..

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Koppitz, Anna, 1895-1989, photographer.

Vuković, Magdalena, editor.

Series:

Fotohof Edition ; Bd. 255.

Beiträge zur Geschichte der Fotografie in Österreich ; Bd. 12.

Contributions to a history of photography in Austria ; volume 12

Fotohof edition ; Band 255, 2017

Standardized Title:

Im Dienst der Rassenfrage. English.

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Koppitz, Anna, 1895-1989.

Koppitz, Anna.

Darré, Richard Walther, 1895-1953.

Darré, Richard Walther.

Photographers--Austria--Biography.

Photographers.

Women photographers--Austria--Biography.

Women photographers.

Photography--Austria--History--20th century.

Photography.

National socialism and art--Austria.

National socialism and art.

Nazi propaganda--Pictorial works.

Nazi propaganda.

Propaganda, German.

History.

Politics and government.

Germany--Politics and government--1933-1945--Pictorial works.

Germany.

Propaganda, German--History--20th century--Pictorial works.

Austria.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Pictorial works.

Biographies.

Illustrated works.

Physical Description:

119 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Edition:

First English edition.

Place of Publication:

Vienna : Photoinstitut Bonartes : Albertina ; Salzburg : Fotohof edition, [2017]

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9783902993557

3902993553

OCLC:

1040696438

Publisher Number:

99977631109