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Photography and Place: Seeing and Not Seeing Germany After 1945 book cover

1st Edition

Photography and Place Seeing and Not Seeing Germany After 1945

By Donna West Brett Copyright 2016
238 Pages 52 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

238 Pages
by Routledge

238 Pages
by Routledge
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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... Read more

Prologue: Photographing History: Germany and its Recent Past  Introduction: Seeing and Not Seeing: Photography and Place  1. Ruin-Gazing: The Disorienting View  2. View from the Edge  3. After the Fact: Late Photography and Unconscious Places  4. After-Image: Re-Photography and Place  5. Aftermath: Absence and Place  6. Der Wald: Memory and Landscape  Afterword: Photographing History after Demand

Biography

Donna West Brett is a Lecturer of Modern Art at the University of Sydney, Australia. She is author of ‘Interventions in Seeing: GDR Surveillance, Camouflage & the Cold War Camera’, in Camouflage Cultures: The Art of Disappearance, Ann Elias, et al., eds. (University of Sydney Press, 2015).

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