Stop reading! look! : modern vision and the Weimar photographic book /

Stop reading! look! : modern vision and the Weimar photographic book /

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Author / Creator:	Stetler, Pepper, author.
Imprint:	Ann Arbor [Michigan] : University of Michigan Press, [2015]
Description:	x, 252 pages ; 27 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Social history, popular culture, and politics in Germany Social history, popular culture, and politics in Germany.
Subject:	Photobooks -- Germany -- History -- 20th century. Visual communication -- Germany -- History -- 20th century. Photography -- Germany -- History -- 20th century. Photobooks. Photography. Visual communication. Germany -- History -- 1918-1933. Germany. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10488969

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ISBN:	9780472119660 0472119664
Notes:	Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.--University of Delaware, 2009) under the title: Bound vision : reading the photographic book in the Weimar Republic. Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-234) and index.
Summary:	In the second half of the Weimar period (1918-33), photographers produced books consisting almost entirely of sequenced images. The subjects ranged widely: from plants and nature to the modern metropolis, from exotic cultures to the German Volk, from anonymous workers to historical figures. While many of the books were created by key practitioners and theorists of modern photography, scholars have rarely addressed the significance of the book format to modern conceptions of photographic meaning. The term "photo-essay" implies that these photographic books were equivalent to literary endeavors, created by replacing text with images, but such assumptions fail to explore the motivations of the books' makers. Stop Reading! Look! argues that Weimar photographic books stood at the center of debates about photography's ability to provide uniquely visual forms of perception and cognition that exceed the capacity of the textual realm. Each chapter provides a sustained analysis of a photographic book, while also bringing the cultural, social, and political context of the Weimar Republic to bear on its relevance and meaning.

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Summary:	In the second half of the Weimar period (1918-33), photographers produced books consisting almost entirely of sequenced images. The subjects ranged widely: from plants and nature to the modern metropolis, from exotic cultures to the German Volk , from anonymous workers to historical figures. While many of the books were created by key practitioners and theorists of modern photography, scholars have rarely addressed the significance of the book format to modern conceptions of photographic meaning. The term "photo-essay" implies that these photographic books were equivalent to literary endeavors, created by replacing text with images, but such assumptions fail to explore the motivations of the books' makers. <br> <br> Stop Reading! Look! argues that Weimar photographic books stood at the center of debates about photography's ability to provide uniquely visual forms of perception and cognition that exceed the capacity of the textual realm. Each chapter provides a sustained analysis of a photographic book, while also bringing the cultural, social, and political context of the Weimar Republic to bear on its relevance and meaning.
Item Description:	Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.--University of Delaware, 2009) under the title: Bound vision : reading the photographic book in the Weimar Republic.
Physical Description:	x, 252 pages ; 27 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-234) and index.
ISBN:	9780472119660 0472119664