Photography and Place: Seeing and Not Seeing Germany After 1945

ISBN-13: 9781138597907 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 222 str.

Donna West Brett

Opis

As a recording device, photography plays a unique role in how we collectively remember places and the events that have happened there. This book presents a theoretical and historical analysis of German photography of place after 1945.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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).