Brett Photography and Place

Seeing and Not Seeing Germany After 1945
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-1-317-56563-5
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 238 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies

As a recording device, photography plays a unique role in how we collectively remember places and the events that have happened there. This book is the first comprehensive theoretical and historical analysis of German photography of place from 1945 to the present. Brett argues that the violent and dramatic changes in the topography of Germany during this period effected a new way of engaging with and seeing ‘place’. This ‘new seeing’ is related to how major historical events and associated places of trauma, memory and history are communicated through and leave their mark in seemingly empty images. The analysis includes original research on both 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, such as Friedrich Seidenstücker, Rudolf Schäfer, Ricarda Roggan, Sarah Schönfeld and Laurenz Berges.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brett, Donna West

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Fotografie Fotografie: Geschichte und Sammlungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Donna West Brett is a Lecturer in the Department of Art History and Film Studies at The University of Sydney, Australia