Overview

Throughout Germany’s tumultuous twentieth century, photography was an indispensable form of documentation. Whether acting as artists, witnesses, or reformers, both professional and amateur photographers chronicled social worlds through successive periods of radical upheaval. The Ethics of Seeing brings together an international group of scholars to explore the complex relationship between the visual and the historic in German history. Emphasizing the transformation of the visual arena and the ways in which ordinary people made sense of world events, these revealing case studies illustrate photography’s multilayered role as a new form of representation, a means to subjective experience, and a fresh mode of narrating the past.

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Author:   Jennifer Evans ,  Paul Betts ,  Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
Imprint:   Berghahn Books
Volume:   21
ISBN:  

9781785337284

ISBN 10:   1785337289
Pages:   306
Publication Date:   09 January 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: Photography as an Ethics of Seeing Jennifer Evans Chapter 1. Thoughts on Photography and the Practice of History Elizabeth Edwards Chapter 2. Seeing the 'Savage' and the Suspension of Time: Photography, War and Concentration Camps in South West Africa, 1904-1908 Claudia Siebrecht Chapter 3. The Face of War in Weimar Visual Culture Annelie Ramsbrock Chapter 4. Documenting Heimkehr: Photography, Displacement and Homecoming in the Nazi Resettlement of Ethnic Germans, 1939-1940 Elizabeth Harvey Chapter 5. Visible Trophies of War: German Occupiers' Photographic Perceptions of France, 1940-44 Julia Torrie Chapter 6. Gazing at Ruins: German Defeat as Visual Experience Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann Chapter 7. Edmund Kesting's Polyphonic Portraits and the Abstract Face of the Socialist Self in East Germany Sarah E. James Chapter 8. Seeing Subjectivity: Erotic Photography and the Optics of Desire Jennifer Evans Chapter 9. Photographing Reurbanization in West Berlin, 1977-84 Anna Ross Chapter 10. The Diversification of East Germany's Visual Culture Candice M. Hamelin Chapter 11. The Intimacy of Revolution: 1989 in Pictures Paul Betts Epilogue: Hope Flies, Death Dances: Moving Toward an Ethics of Seeing Julia Adeney Thomas Index

Reviews

The Ethics of Seeing gathers together very useful and highly readable contributions to the history of Germany photography. These stimulating essays give a broad perspective on the German twentieth century, and in many cases address important gaps in the historical record. * Simon Ward, Durham University

Author Information

Jennifer Evans is Professor of Modern European History at Carleton University in Ottawa Canada. She has co-edited several books on same-sex desire in twentieth-century Europe, including Queer Cities, Queer Cultures: Europe since 1945 (2014) and Was ist Homosexualität? (2014), in addition to her monograph Life among the Ruins: Cityscape and Sexuality in Cold War Berlin (2011). She recently edited a special issue of German History entitled “Queering German History.”

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