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... selected from numerous archival and private collections, discerning a move away from the practice of interior photography as a tool of social affirmation in the late Weimar Republic toward its attestation of absence and loss shortly before emigration from Germany. Employing the Freudian term uncanny in its...

.... By occluding viewers’ expectations about the aspect of photography, The Nazis and Real Nazis critically renarrate Nazism not as a completed historical trauma but as alive today amid a worldwide resurgence of right-wing populism. [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by New German Critique, Inc. 2024...

... vacui of the postmodern subject, and reads the excessive sharing of every moment as a flight from the self and toward the “homeland” of the network. With a nod to Paul Ricoeur's concept of narrative time, Siegfried Kracauer's description of photography as the mere recording of the material, and Zygmunt...

... in this motion picture was even more sen- sational because he himself had previously been violently opposed to being fi lmed or photographed. His biographer Julius Bab describes an “extremely unusual fanaticism in [Bassermannʼs] fi ght against being photographed”—an aversion to photography so intense...

...Sjoukje van der Meulen This essay introduces the seminal work of the Czech media theorist Vilém Flusser (1920–91) for an English-speaking public, such as Für eine Philosophie der Fotografie ( Towards a Philosophy of Photography , 1983) and Ins Universum der technischen Bilder ( Into the Universe...

... History of Photography .” In Germany, the New Photography, 1927–1933: Documents and Essays , edited by Mellor David , 69 – 75 . London : Arts Council of Great Britain . Buck-Morss Susan . 1986 . “ The Flâneur, the Sandwichman, and the Whore: The Politics of Loitering .” New German...

... of the present issue continue this debate through an interdisciplinary analysis of spatial tropes in contemporary litera- ture, architecture, and photography. 1. Andreas Huyssen, Werner Jung, and Peter M. McIsaac, introduction to “Contemporary Ger- man Literature,” special issue, New German Critique...

...Patrizia McBride This article examines the discourse and practice of photography enacted in Weimar Germany's modernist photobook as a testing ground for the medium's narrative potential. This project involved the attempt to stake out an aesthetics that exploited photography's aptitude for exact...

...Stefanie Harris New German Critique, Inc. 2006 Exposures: Rilke, Photography, and the City Stefanie Harris This time, Paris was just what I had expected: diffi cult. And I feel like a photographic...

...), and Homo Sapiens (2016). Copyright © 2019 by New German Critique, Inc. 2019 Nikolaus Geyrhalter architecture photography Bernd Becher Hilla Becher perspective Renaissance perspective is so very comforting. Since it relies on coordinates, separations, and hierarchies, it reassures our...

... the trace because in modernity an increasingly strict and fi rm net of control has been spread over private life. Examples include the offi cial numbering of houses or the use of photography as a police identifi cation procedure. As Weidmann writes, “A new way of preserving the traces immediately...

... Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach. As a provisional point of conclusion, this is also true for Kracauer’s own practice as a resident, and is the same way he dealt privately with photography. The photographic holdings from Kracauer’s estate in the Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach consist mainly...

... politics, in payoff for Bloody May 1929. Though twice framed by the slogan “Use photography as a weapon”— once above the self-portrait and once below, exclamatory headline and sober undertitle—Heartfi eld’s commanding and violent act makes us wonder if it is indeed the photograph, rather than...

..., but by “citing” such images, the film continues to link to the powerful discourse of victimhood that has found its expression in Dresden rubble photography. © 2011 by New German Critique, Inc. 2011 The Ruined Picture Postcard: Dresden’s Visually Encoded History and the Television Drama Dresden...

... the book was still recognizable as the one dedicated to “those who have defended their homeland and ours” during World War I. The article explores the remarkable longevity of this popular but problematic publication. Copyright © 2019 by New German Critique, Inc. 2019 photography publishing Karl...

... in parallel in montage, metal, and photography.33 Metal was the medium in which Brandt received public recognition; photomontage and photography seem always to have been more private affairs, leading to contemplative works that she may have shown to her Bauhaus friends and colleagues. Of the large...

... is the authority of nature. The experience delivered by modernist works in its American phase “ is the release of nature from our private holds ” ( WV , 114; my italics), which is not the same as getting nature back. Because the experience of modernist artworks is not one of readily surveyable and appropriable...

... this former supremacy of the Bauhaus Archive in Berlin, it has acquired an outstanding collection of Bauhaus-related mate- rial. Both institutions have benefited from the opportunity to acquire material long kept in private hands, usually those of former students and their family and friends...

... photography. Berlin Dada, of which Heartfield was an early member, achieved similar effects in its live performances, staged at precisely the same time these films were produced. The essay concludes by noting the parallel between Heartfield's animation and Walter Benjamin's later reflections on the subversive...

..., and manipulated via specific medial technologies. This means in the present context accounting for the role of visual media such as film, photography, television, painting, or even postcards in the construction The articles in this special issue had their genesis in a six-week Deutscher Akademischer...