Main entry:

Deutsche Fotografie. English.

Title & Author:

German photography 1870-1970 : power of a medium / Klaus Honnef, Rolf Sachsse and Karin Thomas (eds.) and Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland ; with essays by Volker Albus [and others].

Publication:

[Cologne] : DuMont, 1997.

Description:

323 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm

Notes:
"This catalogue is published to accompany the exhibition "Deutsche Fotografie. Macht eines Mediums 1870-1970" from 7 May to 24 August 1997 at the Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland in Bonn"--Title page verso.
"This catalogue is published to accompany the exhibition 'Deutsche Fotografie. Macht eines Mediums 1870-1970', from 7 May to 24 August 1997 at the Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland in Bonn"--T.p. verso.
Translation of some of the texts from the German-language version of the catalogue.
Includes bibliographical references.
A concept of German photography / Rolf Sachsse -- German photography : mirror of the German mindset? / Klaus Honnef -- Images of the Kaiserreich : the social and political import of photographs / Wolfgang Ruppert -- The art photography movement around 1900 : painting as a model / Ulrich Keller -- Images of revolution and the Weimar Republic / Heinrich August Winkler -- Photojournalism from the First World War to the Weimar Republic / Bernd Weise -- Images of the national Socialist State / Peter Reichel -- Photography as NS State design : power's abuse of medium / Rolf Sachsse --" ... without masks" : Jews through the lens of "German photography" 1933-1945 / Hanno Loewy -- The Federal Republic of Germany : examples from the history of everyday life / Hermann Glaser -- The smiling face of dictatorship : on the political iconography of the GDR / Stefan Wolle -- From reality to art : photography between profession and abstraction / Klaus Honnef -- Up and running : industrial products and advertising / Volker Albus.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

German photography of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries has long been overshadowed by other forms of German art produced during this period. Yet many German photographers working then -- August Sander, meticulous recorder of life in Cologne; various photographers who have been linked to the Bauhaus movement; the mostly Jewish photojournalists of the golden twenties; and more recently, Hilla and Bernd Becher, with their series of pithead frames and water towers -- are justly renowned for their work.
This superbly illustrated book examines the different levels and purposes of German photography from 1870 to 1970: art, photojournalism, propaganda, advertising, and architectural and fashion photography. Setting the historical background before which the use and abuse of photography takes place, the authors examine the extent that photography was influenced by the German nationalist movement, the changes it underwent during the reign of Kaiser Wilhelm II, its links to the avant garde movements, and its development through the world wars and the Cold War. The authors reveal new and astonishing insights into such subjects as the influence of Soviet, Hungarian, and Czech photography in the Weimar Republic, the role of photography in Nazi propaganda, the depiction of Jewish life during the Third Reich in private and official photographs, and the different uses of photography in both German states after World War II. With biographies of all photographers of major importance and hundreds of photographs in color and black and white, the book is a treasure trove for all lovers of photography and German culture.
This book is the catalogue for an exhibition that takes place in theKunst-und Ausstellungshalle in Bonn, Germany, from May to August 1997.

ISBN:

0300071728
9780300071726

Subject:

Photography Germany History 19th century Exhibitions.
Photography Germany History 20th century Exhibitions.
Photography, Artistic Exhibitions.
Photographie Allemagne Histoire 19e siècle Expositions.
Photographie Allemagne Histoire 20e siècle Expositions.
Photographie artistique Expositions.
Photography.
Photography, Artistic.
Foto's.
Photography, Artistic Germany Exhibitions.
Photography Germany. Exhibitions.
Germany.

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogues.
Exhibition catalogs.
exhibition catalogs.
History.
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Honnef, Klaus.
Sachsse, Rolf.
Thomas, Karin, 1941-
Albus, Volker, 1949-
Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 192141
Call No.: TR73 .D5 1997a
Status: Available