Photography in Service of Racial Politics - Anna Koppitz's Works for Reich Minister R. Walther Darre - Softcover

Vukovic, Magdalena

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3902993553 ISBN 13: 9783902993557

Publisher: Fotohof, 2017

Synopsis

Photography was Reich Minister Richard Walther Darrs medium of choice for illustrating and disseminating his blood and soil ideology. His models, staged before the camera at his request, consisted of athletic youths from the Bauernschaft farming community and specially educated at the Burg neuhaus Law School. It was on to their bodies that he projected his utopian notions of the nordic Race and Germanys genetic future. viennese photographer Anna Koppitz, the widow of the renowned photographer Rudolf Koppitz, worked for Darr. Her photographs were modeled both on the body studies perfected by her husband, and on the sports photography of Leni Riefenstahl, creating a highly explosive mix, perfectly suited for propaganda purposes. Serving Radical Politics is part of the ongoing series Contributions to a History of Photography in Austria, taken from the Albertinas Photographic Collection, which investigates the controversial images that formed part of the Third Reichs doctorine. The authors are Monika faber, Photoinstitut Bonartes, vienna, and Walter Moser, The Albertina, vienna. With essays from elke fuchs, Gesine Gerhard, and curator Magdalena vukovic.

About this edition

• Publisher: Fotohof
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 3902993553
• ISBN 13: 9783902993557
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 120