As a recording device, photography plays a unique role in how we remember places and events that happened there. This includes recording events as they happen, or recording places where something occurred before the photograph was taken, commonly referred to as aftermath photography. This book presents a theoretical and historical analysis of German photography of place after 1945. It analyses how major historical ruptures in twentieth-century Germany and associated places of trauma, memory and history affected the visual field and the circumstances of looking. These ruptures are used to generate a new reading of postwar German photography of place. The analysis includes original research on world-renowned German photographers such as Thomas Struth, Thomas Demand, Michael Schmidt, Boris Becker and Thomas Ruff as well as photographers largely unknown in the Anglophone world.
| ISBN: | 9781138597907 |
| Publication date: | 25th April 2018 |
| Author: | Donna West Brett |
| Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 238 pages |
| Series: | Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies |
| Genres: |
Media studies Photography and photographs The arts: general topics History of art Photojournalism and documentary photography |
As a recording device, photography plays a unique role in how we remember places and events that happened there. This includes recording events as they happen, or recording places where something occurred before the photograph was taken, commonly referred to as aftermath photography. This book presents a theoretical and historical analysis of German photography of place after 1945. It analyses how major historical ruptures in twentieth-century Germany and associated places of trauma, memory and history affected the visual field and the circumstances of looking. These ruptures are used to generate a new reading of postwar German photography of place. The analysis includes original research on world-renowned German photographers such as Thomas Struth, Thomas Demand, Michael Schmidt, Boris Becker and Thomas Ruff as well as photographers largely unknown in the Anglophone world.
Photography and Place features in the following genres: Media studies, Photography and photographs, The arts: general topics, History of art, Photojournalism and documentary photography
Photography and Place is available in Paperback, Ebook, Hardback
Photography and Place was written by Donna West Brett and published by Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis Ltd
Photography and Place has 238 pages
Yes it is part of Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies series
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