Jews and Photography in Britain

Broadening our understanding of photography's history and its influence on modernism, this richly illustrated study-the first of its kind-reveals the remarkable extent to which British photography is a Jewish story.

List of contents

• List of Illustrations
• Abbreviations
• Preface: The Prince, the Professor, the Photographer—and the Jewish Question
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Fancy, Fear, Suspicion
• Chapter 1. Studios: Between Intimacy and Commercialism
• Chapter 2. Elective Affinities in Photojournalism
• Chapter 3. Photographic Practice at the Warburg Institute, 1933–1948
• Chapter 4. The Brothers Gernsheim, Part I
• Chapter 5. Not Harry Gresham
• Chapter 6. Helmut Gernsheim, "Semite"
• Epilogue
• Notes
• Further Reading
• Index

About the author

MICHAEL BERKOWITZis a professor of modern Jewish history at University College London and editor of Jewish Historical Studies: Transactions of the Jewish Historical Society of England.

Summary

Broadening our understanding of photography’s history and its influence on modernism, this richly illustrated study—the first of its kind—reveals the remarkable extent to which British photography is a Jewish story.

Product details

• Authors: Michael Berkowitz
• Publisher: University Of Texas Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2015
• EAN: 9781477305560
• ISBN: 978-1-4773-0556-0
• No. of pages: 392
• Series: Exploring Jewish Arts and Culture; Exploring Jewish Arts and Culture; Exploring Jewish Arts and Cult
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV