Table des matières

Eric Kurlander

Foreword

Introduction

Christopher Webster

Editor’s Introduction

Pepper Stetler

Photo Lessons: Teaching Physiognomy during the Weimar Republic

State

Rolf Sachsse

1. Dark Sky, White Costumes

The Janus State of Modern Photography in Germany 1933–1945

• The Continuity of the New Vision in Media, Design, and Photography
• Propaganda in 35mm
• Colour Photography
• The Worst of Modernism: World War II
• Modern Propaganda for a Feebleminded State

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

• The Führerprinzip (The Leader Principle)
• Physiognomy
• Wegbereiter und Vorkämpfer für das neue Deutschland (Pioneers and Champions of the New Germany)
• Das Gesicht des Geistes (The Face of the Spirit)
• Conclusion

Workers

Andrés Mario Zervigón

3. The Timeless Imprint of Erna Lendvai-Dircksen’s Face of the German Race

• Erna Lendvai-Dircksen
• The Photographs and Their Context
• Lendvai-Dircksen and the Heimat
• Modernity and Modernism

Heimat

Ulrich Hägele

4. Photography, Heimat, Ideology

• Heimat and the Foundation of National Meaning
• Völkische Heimat
• The Heimat Front
• The Heimat in Colour
• Conclusion

Myth

Christopher Webster

5. ‘Transmissions from an Extrasensory World’

Ethnos and Mysticism in the Photographic Nexus

• Introduction
• Occult Currents
• Urbild des Gottmenschen (Archetype of the God-Man)
• Conclusion

Science

Amos Morris-Reich

6. Science and Ideology

Photographic ‘Economies of Demonstration’ in Racial Science

• Racial Photography: A Methodological Perspective
• Expansion and Contraction in the Third Reich
• Conclusion

Conclusion

Bibliography

List of Illustrations

• Introduction
• Chapter 1
• Chapter 2
• Chapter 3
• Chapter 4
• Chapter 5
• Chapter 6
• Conclusion

Index