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Brecht and photography
- Abstract:
- This essay provides an overview of Brecht’s engagement with photography. His early fascination with the medium developed, in the context of the burgeoning illustrated media landscape and the German “New Photography,” into theoretical reflections in dialogue with Walter Benjamin and Siegfried Kracauer. He also began to use photography, especially press photography, in his own work: as a source for the analysis of social behavior and a way of fixing Gestus. In due course he became more and more sensitive to the politics of representation and employed photography directly and innovatively in his own works, the Journal and the “photoepigrams” of War Primer.
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1017/9781108608800.018
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Host title:
- Brecht in Context
- Pages:
- 131 - 139
- Chapter number:
- 15
- Series:
- Literature in Context
- Place of publication:
- Cambridge UK
- Publication date:
- 2021-05-28
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- 9781108608800
- ISBN:
- 9781108426466
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