The idea of photography in Germany evokes everything from the pioneering modernist pictures of the Weimar era to the colossal digital prints that define art photography today. But it also recalls horrifying documents of wartime atrocities and the relentless surveillance of East German citizens. __Photography and Germany__ broadens these perceptions by examining the medium’s multi-faceted relationship with Germany’s turbulent cultural, political, and social history while rethinking the notion of German photography with fresh insights on its historical context.
Andrés Mario Zervigón covers this history from the region’s pre-photographic experiments with light-sensitive chemicals to today’s tension between analog and digital technologies. Rather than simply providing a survey of German photography, however, he focuses on how the medium, as a product of the modern age, has intervened in a fraught project of national imagining, often to productive ends but sometimes to catastrophic results. Richly illustrated with numerous previously unpublished images, __Photography and Germany__ is the first single-authored history of photography in Germany ever published, one that deepens our broader understanding of how photography cultivates notions of a nation and its inhabitants.

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Zervigón, Andrés Mario

Andres Mario Zervigon

United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom

Exposures (London, England), London, 2017

Jun 15, 2017

FR, 2017

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Source title: Photography and Germany (Exposures)

The idea of photography in Germany evokes everything from the pioneering modernist pictures of the Weimar era to the colossal digital prints that define art photography today. But it also recalls horrifying documents of wartime atrocities and the relentless surveillance of East German citizens. Photography and Germany broadens these perceptions by examining the medium's multi-faceted relationship with Germany's turbulent cultural, political, and social history while rethinking the notion of German photography with fresh insights on its historical context. Andres Mario Zervigon covers this history from the region's pre-photographic experiments with light-sensitive chemicals to today's tension between analog and digital technologies. Rather than simply providing a survey of German photography, however, he focuses on how the medium, as a product of the modern age, has intervened in a fraught project of national imagining, often to productive ends but sometimes to catastrophic results. Richly illustrated with numerous previously unpublished images, Photography and Germany is the first single-authored history of photography in Germany ever published, one that deepens our broader understanding of how photography cultivates notions of a nation and its inhabitants

The meeting of photography and Germany evokes pioneering modernist pictures from the Weimar era and colossal digital prints that define the medium's art practice today. It also recalls horrifying documents of wartime atrocity and the relentless surveillance of East German citizens. 'Photography and Germany' broadens these perceptions by examining photography's multi-faceted relationship with Germany's turbulent cultural, political and social history. It shows how many of the same phenomena that helped generate the country's most recognizable photographs also led to a range of lesser-known pictures that similarly documented or negotiated Germany's cultural identity and historical ruptures. The book rethinks the photography we commonly associate with the country by focusing on how the medium heavily defined the notion of "German." As a product of the modern age, photography intervened in a fraught project of national imagining, largely productively but sometimes catastrophically. 'Photography and Germany' covers this history chronologically, from early experiments in light-sensitive chemicals to the tension between analogue and digital technologies that have stimulated the famous contemporary art photography associated with the country

Cover 1
Photography and Germany 4
Imprint Page 5
Contents 6
Introduction 8
One: Belated Photography, 1839–1870 12
Two: Photography and Nation, 1871–1918 48
Three: The Weimar Era and Photo-consciousness,1919-1932 84
Four: The Alluring Surface, 1933–1945 122
Five: History, the Future and Photography, 1946–1989 156
Six: Photographic Promiscuity, 1990–2016 190
References 208
Select Bibliography 213
Acknowledgements 215
Photo Acknowledgements 216
Index 218

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