The Ethics of Seeing

Photography and Twentieth-Century German History
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-78533-728-4
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 306 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 596 g

Reihe: Studies in German history

Throughout Germany’s tumultuous twentieth century, photography was an indispensable form of documentation. Whether acting as artists, witnesses, or reformers, both professional and amateur photographers chronicled social worlds through successive periods of radical upheaval. The Ethics of Seeing brings together an international group of scholars to explore the complex relationship between the visual and the historic in German history. Emphasizing the transformation of the visual arena and the ways in which ordinary people made sense of world events, these revealing case studies illustrate photography’s multilayered role as a new form of representation, a means to subjective experience, and a fresh mode of narrating the past.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Evans, Jennifer

Betts, Paul

Hoffmann, Stefan-Ludwig

Evans, Jennifer V.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Fotografie Fotografie: Geschichte und Sammlungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Photography as an Ethics of Seeing

Jennifer Evans

Chapter 1. Thoughts on Photography and the Practice of History

Elizabeth Edwards

Chapter 2. Seeing the ‘Savage’ and the Suspension of Time: Photography, War and Concentration Camps in South West Africa, 1904-1908

Claudia Siebrecht

Chapter 3. The “Face of War” in Weimar Visual Culture

Annelie Ramsbrock

Chapter 4. Documenting Heimkehr: Photography, Displacement and “Homecoming” in the Nazi Resettlement of Ethnic Germans, 1939-1940

Elizabeth Harvey

Chapter 5. Visible Trophies of War: German Occupiers’ Photographic Perceptions of France, 1940-44

Julia Torrie

Chapter 6. Gazing at Ruins: German Defeat as Visual Experience

Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann

Chapter 7. Edmund Kesting’s Polyphonic Portraits and the Abstract Face of the Socialist Self in East Germany

Sarah E. James

Chapter 8. Seeing Subjectivity: Erotic Photography and the Optics of Desire

Jennifer Evans

Chapter 9. Photographing Reurbanization in West Berlin, 1977-84

Anna Ross

Chapter 10. The Diversification of East Germany’s Visual Culture

Candice M. Hamelin

Chapter 11. The Intimacy of Revolution: 1989 in Pictures

Paul Betts

Epilogue: Hope Flies, Death Dances: Moving Toward an Ethics of Seeing

Julia Adeney Thomas

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Evans, Jennifer
Jennifer Evans is Professor of Modern European History at Carleton University in Ottawa Canada. She has co-edited several books on same-sex desire in twentieth-century Europe, including Queer Cities, Queer Cultures: Europe since 1945 (2014) and Was ist Homosexualität? (2014), in addition to her monograph Life among the Ruins: Cityscape and Sexuality in Cold War Berlin (2011). She recently edited a special issue of German History entitled “Queering German History.”

Betts, Paul
Paul Betts is Professor of Modern European History at St Antony’s College, Oxford. He is the author of several books on twentieth-century cultural history, including Within Walls: Private Life in the German Democratic Republic (2010) and most recently (as co-editor), Religion, Science and Communism in Cold War Europe (2016).

Hoffmann, Stefan-Ludwig
Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann is Associate Professor for Late Modern Europe in the History Department of the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of several books on German and transnational history since the Enlightenment, most recently (as editor) Human Rights in the Twentieth-Century (2011) and (as co-editor), Seeking Peace in the Wake of War: Europe 1943-1947 (2015).

Jennifer Evans is Professor of Modern European History at Carleton University in Ottawa Canada. She has co-edited several books on same-sex desire in twentieth-century Europe, including Queer Cities, Queer Cultures: Europe since 1945 (2014) and Was ist Homosexualität? (2014), in addition to her monograph Life among the Ruins: Cityscape and Sexuality in Cold War Berlin (2011). She recently edited a special issue of German History entitled “Queering German History.”