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8 juin 2021
- handle: 10670/1.1ukyz6
- isbn: 9781783749140
- eisbn: 9791036570353
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photography photo-historical survey photographers National Socialism Third Reich physiognomic photography ethnographic photography Selbstgleichschaltung Art SOC014000 PHO023000 AF JHSujets proches
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Pepper Stetler, « Photo Lessons: Teaching Physiognomy during the Weimar Republic », Open Book Publishers, ID : 10670/1.1ukyz6
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Photography flourished during the Weimar Republic as a prolific form of visual communication. Artists were remarkably aware of their era as a moment of transition in which an imagined future of a new photographic language was yet to occur. In a photographically illustrated essay published in 1928, the graphic designer Johannes Molzahn envisioned a future in which reading would be an obsolete skill. ‘ “Stop reading! Look!” will be the motto in education, ’ Molzahn wrote, ‘ “Stop Reading! Look!...