Photography and Place

Autorentext

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 Camerä, in Camouflage Cultures: The Art of Disappearance, Ann Elias, et al., eds. (University of Sydney Press, 2015).

Klappentext

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.

Inhalt

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