As a recording device; photography plays a unique role in how we remember places and events that happened there. This includes recording events as they happen; or recording places where something occurred before the photograph was taken; commonly referred to as aftermath photography. This book presents a theoretical and historical analysis of German photography of place after 1945. It analyses how major historical ruptures in twentieth-century Germany and associated places of trauma; memory and history affected the visual field and the circumstances of looking. These ruptures are used to generate a new reading of postwar German photography of place. The analysis includes original research on world-renowned German photographers such as Thomas Struth; Thomas Demand; Michael Schmidt; Boris Becker and Thomas Ruff as well as photographers largely unknown in the Anglophone world.
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