Common ground : German photographic cultures across the iron curtain / Sarah E. James.

Main entry:

James, Sarah E., 1978-

Title & Author:

Common ground : German photographic cultures across the iron curtain / Sarah E. James.

Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, [2013]

Description:

267 pages : illustrations some color ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 242-257) and index.
Cold war primers : German identity and photography in the postwar -- A post-fascist family of man : Karl Pawek's Cold War photo-essay & its stereoscopic vision -- Evelyn Richter's exact seeing : the public & private faces of East Germany -- Bernd and Hilla Bechers' industrial archive : re-enchanting the everyday & resisting reunification -- Rudolf Schifer : the dead-end of portraiture & the socialist self -- Epilogue : Michael Schmidt, making German history strange.

Summary:

This ambitious publication is the first book to thoroughly evaluate the photography that emerged during Germany's geopolitical division from the 1950s to the 1980s. With richly illustrated and exhaustively researched analyses of photographic projects from East and West Germany, including exhibitions, photo-essays, private archives, and photo-books, Common Ground constructs a comparative perspective, examining how sequence, seriality, and repetition were mobilized to produce forms of solidarity and political agency. Author Sarah James places German postwar photography in the context of Soviet, American, and European photographic developments; the specific cultural experiences of the Cold War; and the shifting politics of German identity. By reconsidering the relationship between divergent cultures of the pre-war Weimar period and the Cold War era, Common Ground prompts new readings of major figures such as Bernd and Hilla Becher, Karl Blossfeldt, and August Sander, as well as historically neglected figures such as Karl Pawek, Evelyn Richter, and Rudolf Schäfer. The result is a groundbreaking study of the political and pedagogical functions of documentary photography.

ISBN:

9780300184440 (alk. paper)
0300184441 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Photography Germany History 20th century.
Cold War.
Photographie Allemagne Histoire 20e siècle.
Guerre froide.
Photography History Germany 20th century.
Photography.
Fotografie
Fotografi historia.
Kalla kriget.
Germany History 20th century.
Tyskland.
Allemagne Histoire 20e siècle.
Germany.
Deutschland
1955-1989

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 282758
Call No.: BIB 220511
Status: Available

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