Mein Kodak Avant-Garde Photography in 1920s Germany
Simmonds, Toni Mia (2004) Mein Kodak Avant-Garde Photography in 1920s Germany. Masters by Research thesis, Queensland University of Technology.
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Abstract
This study examines some of the fundamental principles of a number of influential photographers working in Germany in the 1920s and assesses the ways they understood the world through their camera's lens. German photography initiated a complex engagement with the modern world and marked a significant reevaluation of the relationship between the camera, perception and reality. The unique quality of the photographic image's verisimilitude of nature was an important phenomenon in this re-evaluation, as it led to assumptions about the capacity of photography to reveal the truth of reality. László Moholy-Nagy's innovative employment of a variety of photographic techniques provide an effective conduit to modern theories about photography that not only expose the presumptions surrounding the photographic image, but also the inherent complications. I propose that the avant-garde photographic experiments of 1920s Germany radically changed the ways in which humanity perceived and interacted with the surrounding world.
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| ID Code: | 15991 |
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| Item Type: | QUT Thesis (Masters by Research) |
| Supervisor: | Pennings, Mark& McNamara, Andrew |
| Keywords: | photography, German, 1920, camera, perception, reality, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy |
| Divisions: | Current > QUT Faculties and Divisions > Creative Industries Faculty |
| Department: | Faculty of Creative Industries |
| Institution: | Queensland University of Technology |
| Copyright Owner: | Copyright Toni Mia Simmonds |
| Deposited On: | 03 Dec 2008 13:54 |
| Last Modified: | 29 Oct 2011 05:41 |
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