Author: Jeffrey Zuehlke
Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books
ISBN: 9780822546818
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 84

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Describes the geography, history, government, economy, people, and cultural life of Germany.

Author: Karin Lelonek
Publisher: Taschen
ISBN: 9783836576208
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 612

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Spanning the length and breadth of Germany, this remarkable collection features the first color photographic images of what was then a young, prosperous, and self-confident nation. From the authors of the critically acclaimed America 1900, the book features some 800 photochroms to create a fascinating, poignant panorama of the country's most...

Author: Jennifer Evans
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 1785337297
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 306

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Throughout Germany’s tumultuous twentieth century, photography was an indispensable form of documentation. Whether acting as artists, witnesses, or reformers, both professional and amateur photographers chronicled social worlds through successive periods of radical upheaval. The Ethics of Seeing brings together an international group of scholars to explore the complex relationship between the visual and the historic in German history. Emphasizing the transformation of the visual arena and the ways in which ordinary people made sense of world events, these revealing case studies illustrate photography’s multilayered role as a new form of representation, a means to subjective experience, and a fresh mode of narrating the past.

Author: Ed Jones
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780995185531
Category : Berlin (Germany)
Languages : en
Pages : 144

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Drawing on more than 100 unpublished photographs, including unseen images of some of the most famous and infamous Berlin clubs of the 1920s, Party! Party!! Party!!! depicts the Weimar Republic through the people who partied and the places they partied in--from living rooms and bedrooms to the underground and tourist-filled clubs and music halls of Berlin. The defeat of the German Empire in World War I meant that the newly formed Weimar Republic was all but bankrupt, facing impossible debt and prey to violent revolution from both left and right. The poor were particularly vulnerable. Any new day could bring disease, unemployment or crime. This precariousness of existence gave rise, in some, to a frantic desire to live in the moment--to celebrate, or escape reality. An exploration of decadence, sexuality and indulgence went alongside an innocence of the consequences of fascism or communism. Life, for many, became a kind of feast during a time of plague as Germany in the 1920s conducted a glorious and futile experiment in the art of partying. Party! Party!! Party!!! is a moving testimony to this celebratory spirit.

Author: Gustav Freytag
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Germany
Languages : en
Pages :

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Author: Andrés Mario Zervigón
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1780237944
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 225

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The idea of photography in Germany evokes everything from the pioneering modernist pictures of the Weimar era to the colossal digital prints that define art photography today. But it also recalls horrifying documents of wartime atrocities and the relentless surveillance of East German citizens. Photography and Germany broadens these perceptions by examining the medium’s multi-faceted relationship with Germany’s turbulent cultural, political, and social history while rethinking the notion of German photography with fresh insights on its historical context. Andrés Mario Zervigón covers this history from the region’s pre-photographic experiments with light-sensitive chemicals to today’s tension between analog and digital technologies. Rather than simply providing a survey of German photography, however, he focuses on how the medium, as a product of the modern age, has intervened in a fraught project of national imagining, often to productive ends but sometimes to catastrophic results. Richly illustrated with numerous previously unpublished images, Photography and Germany is the first single-authored history of photography in Germany ever published, one that deepens our broader understanding of how photography cultivates notions of a nation and its inhabitants.

Author: Germany. [Appendix. - Descriptions, Topography & Travels.]
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 118

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Author: Lerner Publications Company Geography Department
Publisher: Lerner Publications
ISBN: 9780822518730
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 70

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Discusses Germany's history, government, people, land, and economy.

Author: Daniel H. Magilow
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271054220
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 202

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"Examines photo essays from Weimar Germany's many social crises. Traces photography's emergence as a new language that German photographers used to intervene in modernity's key political and philosophical debates: changing notions of nature and culture, national and personal identity, and the viability of parliamentary democracy"--

Author: Gustav Freytag
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Germany
Languages : en
Pages : 324

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