Photography And Germany (exposures)
by Andrés Mario Zervigón /
2017 / English / PDF
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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.
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
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.
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illustrated with numerous previously unpublished images,
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illustrated with numerous previously unpublished images,Photography and Germany
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.
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.