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The Photographic Fix explores how photographs from World War I were used in personal photo albums and mass-market picture books to determine the meaning and legacy of the postwar Weimar Republic. Due to their publication success and wide reception, picture books should be considered no small part of this broad struggle of ideas to cement the war’s legacy in the Weimar era. Drawing from a large archive of photographs created during the war by amateur soldier-photographers and professional reporters alike, Justin Court explores how visual depictions of the war were used to construct and distort memory in the highly contested realm of war commemoration in the Weimar. These books of photography reveal an effort to shape how the war was visually remembered in order to influence public opinion on myriad matters following in the war’s wake, including notions of German guilt and responsibility, the legitimacy of the Republic, and the political future of the German nation. By utilizing relatively neglected sources, The Photographic Fix expands scholarship on German war photography to illuminate how images from the war and Weimar period reflected the public’s understanding of the medium at the time.
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Keywords
- Amateur photography
- Collective memory
- Der Weltkrieg im Bild
- Ernst Friedrich
- First World War
- Franz Schauwecker
- George Soldan
- German history
- Germany
- Memory studies
- Military History
- Nationalism
- Photo albums
- Photography
- Picture books
- Politics
- Propaganda
- Reichsarchiv
- So ist der Friede
- So war der Krieg!
- Text and image
- thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AJ Photography and photographs
- thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government
- thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
- thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history
- Visual Memory
- Walter Bloem
- War Against War!
- Weimar Republic
- Werner Beumelburg
- Western Front
- WWI
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DOI: 10.3998/mpub.12915585Editions