Stop Reading! Look! : Modern Vision and the Weimar Photographic Book.

Stetler, Pepper.

Stop Reading! Look! : Modern Vision and the Weimar Photographic Book. - 1st ed. - Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2015. ©2015. - 1 online resource (263 pages) - Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany Series . - Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany Series .

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Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: How to Read a Photographic Book -- Teaching Modern Vision -- Old Media/New Media -- One. Visualizing the Book: László Moholy-nagy's Malerei Photographie Film -- The New Vision -- A "Purely Optical" Book -- Teaching Film und Foto -- "The New Visual Literature" -- Two. The Value of Photography: Albert Renger-Patzsch's Die Welt Ist Schön -- Renger-Patzschand the Photobook Industry -- Heise and the Search for Modern Kunstwollen -- Sachlichkeit and the Photographic Book -- Three. Natural History: Karl Blossfeldt's Urformen der Kunst -- The Return of the Urform -- The Origins of the Urform -- Forms of History -- Four. Facing the Photographic Book: Helmar Lerski's Köpfe des Alltags -- Laying Bare the Soul -- The Cinematic Book -- Reading the Face -- Death Masks -- Conclusion: After the Weimar Photographic Book -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

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Germany--History--1918-1933.


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