Amos Morris-Reich

Photography and Jewish History

Five Twentieth-Century Cases

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"This book develops a method that emphasizes the entwinements of "technology," "ideology," and the medium-specific particularities of photography in five twentieth-century cases in which photography and Jewish history intersect"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 264mm x 185mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 714g
• ISBN-13: 9780812253917
• ISBN-10: 0812253914
• Artikelnr.: 63625682

Autorenporträt

Amos Morris-Reich

Inhaltsangabe

Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. Utopia and Photography circa 1900: Albert Kahn and the Archives
of the Planet
Chapter 2. The Boundaries of Photographic Intention: Helmar Lerski's
"Failed" Project
Chapter 3. Album of an Extinct Race: Eugen Fischer and Photography
Chapter 4. Photography for Its Own Sake: Robert Frank and The Americans
Chapter 5. Photography and Rupture: S. An-sky, Solomon Yudovin, and the
Documentation of Russian Jewry
Conclusion. Photography and Democracy
Notes
Index