Photography and Germany

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.

About the author

Andrés Mario Zervigón is Professor of the History of Photography at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. His previous books include John Heartfield and the Agitated Image: Photography, Persuasion, and the Rise of Avant-garde Photomontage (2012) and Photography and Its Origins (co-edited with Tanya Sheehan, 2014).

Summary

Richly illustrated with many previously unpublished images, Photography and Germany is the first single-authored history of German photography, and deepens our understanding of how photography cultivates notions of a nation and its inhabitants.

Product details

• Authors: Andres Mario Zervigon, Andrés Mario Zervigón, Zervigon Andres Mario
• Publisher: Reaktion Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.05.2017
• EAN: 9781780237480
• ISBN: 978-1-78023-748-0
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Exposures; Exposures
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Photography & photographs, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, HISTORY / Europe / Germany, European History, Germany, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, PHOTOGRAPHY / General, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Social and cultural history, Photography and photographs