Contents
Foreword |
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Introduction |
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Editor’s Introduction |
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Photo Lessons: Teaching Physiognomy during the Weimar Republic |
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STATE |
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Dark Sky, White Costumes: The Janus State of Modern Photography in Germany 1933–1945 |
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LEADERS |
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‘The Deepest Well of German Life’: Hierarchy, Physiognomy and the Imperative of Leadership in Erich Retzlaff’s Portraits of the National Socialist Elite |
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WORKERS |
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The Timeless Imprint of Erna Lendvai-Dircksen’s Face of the German Race |
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HEIMAT |
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Photography, Heimat, Ideology |
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MYTH |
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‘Transmissions from an Extrasensory World’: Ethnos and Mysticism in the Photographic Nexus |
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SCIENCE |
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Science and Ideology: Photographic ‘Economies of Demonstration’ in Racial Science |
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Conclusion |
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Bibliography |
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List of Illustrations |
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Index |