Photography in the Third Reich
Art, Physiognomy and Propaganda
OBP collectionÉditeur : Open Book Publishers
Lieu d’édition : Cambridge
Publication sur OpenEdition Books : 8 juin 2021
Collection : OBP collection
Année d’édition : 2021
Nombre de pages : xiv-295
Présentation
This lucid and comprehensive collection of essays by an international group of scholars constitutes a photo-historical survey of select photographers who embraced National Socialism during the Third Reich. These photographers developed and implemented physiognomic and ethnographic photography, and, through a Selbstgleichschaltung (a self-co-ordination with the regime), continued to practice as photographers throughout the twelve years of the Third Reich.
The volume explores, through photographic reproductions and accompanying analysis, diverse aspects of photography during the Third Reich, ranging from the influence of Modernism, the qualitative effect of propaganda photography, and the utilisation of technology such as colour film, to the photograph as ideological metaphor. With an emphasis on the idealised representation of the German body and the role of physiognomy within this representation, the book examines how select photographers created and developed a visual myth of the ’master race’ and its antitheses under the auspices of the Nationalist Socialist state.
Photography in the Third Reich approaches its historical source photographs as material culture, examining their production, construction and proliferation. This detailed and informative text will be a valuable resource not only to historians studying the Third Reich, but to scholars and students of film, history of art, politics, media studies, cultural studies and holocaust studies.
As with all Open Book publications, this entire book is available to read for free on the publisher’s website. Printed and digital editions, together with supplementary digital material, can also be found at www.openbookpublishers.com
Sommaire
Eric Kurlander
ForewordIntroduction
Christopher Webster
Editor’s IntroductionState
Leaders
Christopher Webster
2. ‘The Deepest Well of German Life’Hierarchy, Physiognomy and the Imperative of Leadership in Erich Retzlaff’s Portraits of the National Socialist Elite
Workers
Andrés Mario Zervigón
3. The Timeless Imprint of Erna Lendvai-Dircksen’s Face of the German RaceHeimat
Ulrich Hägele
4. Photography, Heimat, IdeologyMyth
Christopher Webster
5. ‘Transmissions from an Extrasensory World’Ethnos and Mysticism in the Photographic Nexus
Science
Amos Morris-Reich
6. Science and IdeologyPhotographic ‘Economies of Demonstration’ in Racial Science
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