Photofascism

Photography, Film, and Exhibition Culture in 1930s Germany and Italy

Vanessa Rocco (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

216 Seiten

2022
Bloomsbury Visual Arts (Verlag)
978-1-350-28424-1 (ISBN)

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Photography and fascism in interwar Europe developed into a highly toxic and combustible formula. Particularly in concert with aggressive display techniques, the European fascists were utterly convinced of their ability to use the medium of photography to manufacture consent among their publics. Unfortunately, as we know in hindsight, they succeeded. Other dictatorial regimes in the 1930s harnessed this powerful combination of photography and exhibitions for their own odious purposes. But this book, for the first time, focuses on the particularly consequential dialectic between Germany and Italy in the early-to-mid 1930s, and within each of those countries vis-à-vis display culture.

The 1930s provides a potent case study for every generation, and it is as urgent as ever in our global political environment to deeply understand the central role of visual imagery in what transpired. Photofascism demonstrates precisely how dictatorial regimes use photographic mass media, methodically and in combination with display, to persuade the public with often times highly destructive—even catastrophic—results.

Vanessa Rocco is Associate Professor of Humanities & Fine Arts at Southern New Hampshire University, USA and former Associate Curator at the International Center of Photography (ICP), USA. She is co-editor of The New Woman International: Representations in Photography and Film from the 1870s to the1960s (2011). Rocco organized numerous exhibitions and publications at the ICP, including Louise Brooks and the 'New Woman' in Weimar Cinema (2007), Modernist Photography: Selections from the Daniel Cowin Collection (2005), and Expanding Vision: Moholy-Nagy's Experiments of the 1920s (2004). Her reviews and articles about photography and exhibitions have also appeared in numerous prestigious journals.

Introduction: Designing, Displaying, Facilitating Fascism

Chapter 1: Last Stop Before Photofascism: Activist Photo Spaces and the Exhibition of the Building Workers Unions, Berlin 1931
Chapter 2: ‘Acting on the Visitor’s Mind’: Exhibition of the Fascist Revolution, Rome 1932
Chapter 3: Nazis Ascendant: The Camera, Berlin 1933
Chapter 4: “A Fundamental Irony”: The Venice International Film Festivals 1932-36
Chapter 5: Both/And: German and Italian Photography Exhibitions in 1936 and 1937

Epilogue: Total War, 1938-1942, and Visual Culture in the 21st century

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Erscheinungsdatum	25.03.2022
Reihe/Serie	Visual Cultures and German Contexts
Zusatzinfo	52 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Fotokunst
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Fotografieren / Filmen
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
ISBN-10	1-350-28424-6 / 1350284246
ISBN-13	978-1-350-28424-1 / 9781350284241
Zustand	Neuware