Heinz von Perckhammer
Subtitle: eine fotografenkarriere zwischen Weimarer Republik und Nationalsozialismus = a career in photography between Weimer Republic and National Socialism
By: Kathrin Schönegg
Contributors: Perckhammer, Heinz von; Heiting, Manfred, book designer; Berlinische Galerie
Series: BG Forschungsbericht -- 3; BG Forschungsbericht -- 3.
Publisher: Berlinische Galerie
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Berlin
Language: ger
Number of pages: 80
ISBN-13: 9783940208569
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; Documentary photography; History; Nazi propaganda; Photography; Political aspects; Press and politics
Other titles: Fotografenkarriere zwischen Weimarer Republik und Nationalsozialismus; Career in photography between Weimer Republic and National Socialism; Heinz von Perckhammer.; Heinz von Perckhammer. English.
Description: "The Thomas Friedrich Scholarship for Research in Photography has been organised at the Berlinische Galerie since January 2014. Initiated by patron Manfred Heiting, it offers academics an opportunity to spend a year working on a specific body of material in the Photography Collection. Most of the exhibits by Heinz von Perckhammer dating from the Nazi years (1933-1945) exemplify National Socialist propaganda in photography. Work still needs doing by historians to understand and illustrate its mechanisms of influence and the fascination exerted by this aesthetic. The pictures taken by Heinz von Perckhammer after Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933 show that he not only picked up the propaganda aesthetic cultivated by the Nazi regime in a significant number of his works, but also marketed them effectively. In the years prior to this, during the Weimar Republic, he had already achieved international success as a photographer with his spectacular pictures from China and with images influenced by a modernist idiom. Heinz von Perckhammer had evidently adapted to the new political context. In this respect he is typical of many photographers whose professional careers continued seamlessly under the conditions of a dictatorial regime."--Berlinische Galerie.
Notes: This BG Research Report publishes the findings of Kathrin Schönegg, the 2017 recipient of the Thomas Friedrich Scholarship.

Includes bibliographical references.

Parallel texts in German and English.