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The photography of crisis : the photo essays of Weimar Germany

Title
The photography of crisis : the photo essays of Weimar Germany / Daniel H. Magilow.
Author
Magilow, Daniel H., 1973-
Publication
University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, c2012.

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Description
xiv, 186 p. : ill.; 26 cm.
Summary
"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"--
Subject
  • Photography > Germany > History > 20th century
  • Photography > Social aspects > History > Germany > 20th century
  • Vernacular photography > Germany > History > 20th century
  • Germany > History > 1918-1933 > Sources
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [163]-172) and index.
Contents
The new receptivity and the new photographer -- The illustrated press and the photo essay -- The modernist photobook : the nature of nature -- Photographic physiognomies : diagnosing Germanness -- The snapshot and the moment of decision.
Call Number
MFW 13-2380
ISBN
  • 9780271054223 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0271054220 (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN
2012015475
OCLC
790269892
Author
Magilow, Daniel H., 1973-
Title
The photography of crisis : the photo essays of Weimar Germany / Daniel H. Magilow.
Imprint
University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, c2012.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [163]-172) and index.
Research Call Number
MFW 13-2380
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