Stop Reading! Look! : Modern Vision and the Weimar Photographic Book /

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In the second half of the Weimar period (1918-33), photographers produced books consisting almost entirely of sequenced images. The subjects ranged widely: from plants and nature to the modern metropolis, from exotic cultures to the German Volk, from anonymous workers to historical figures. While ma...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Stetler, Pepper
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2015
Series:Social history, popular culture, and politics in Germany.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Photography > Germany > History > 20th century.
Germany > History > 1918-1933.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : how to read a photographic book
  • Visualizing the book : László Moholy-Nagy's Malerei Photographie Film
  • The value of photography : Albert Renger-Patzsch's Die Welt ist schön
  • Natural history : Karl Blossfeldt's Urformen der Kunst
  • Facing the photographic book : Helmar Lerski's Köpfe des Alltags
  • Conclusion : after the Weimar photographic book.

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