The photography of crisis
Subtitle: the photo essays of Weimar Germany
By: Daniel H. Magilow
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: University Park, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 186
ISBN-13: 9780271054223
Subjects: Sources; Photography; Germany; Vernacular photography; History
Description: "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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The new receptivity and the new photographer; title: The illustrated press and the photo essay; title: The modernist photobook : the nature of nature; title: Photographic physiognomies : diagnosing Germanness; title: The snapshot and the moment of decision.