Contents

Foreword

Eric Kurlander

vii

Introduction

1

Editor’s Introduction

Christopher Webster

1

Photo Lessons: Teaching Physiognomy during the Weimar Republic

Pepper Stetler

15

STATE

29

1.

Dark Sky, White Costumes: The Janus State of Modern Photography in Germany 1933–1945

Rolf Sachsse

31

LEADERS

59

2.

‘The Deepest Well of German Life’: Hierarchy, Physiognomy and the Imperative of Leadership in Erich Retzlaff’s Portraits of the National Socialist Elite

Christopher Webster

61

WORKERS

95

3.

The Timeless Imprint of Erna Lendvai-Dircksen’s Face of the German Race

Andrés Mario Zervigón

97

HEIMAT

129

4.

Photography, Heimat, Ideology

Ulrich Hägele

131

MYTH

171

5.

‘Transmissions from an Extrasensory World’: Ethnos and Mysticism in the Photographic Nexus

Christopher Webster

173

SCIENCE

203

6.

Science and Ideology: Photographic ‘Economies of Demonstration’ in Racial Science

Amos Morris-Reich

205

Conclusion

239

Bibliography

257

List of Illustrations

275

Index

283

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