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The Decisive Network
"Since its founding in 1947, the legendary Magnum Photos agency has been telling its own story: Its photographers were concerned witnesses to history and artists on the hunt for decisive moments; their pictures were humanist documents of the postwar world. Based in unprecedented archival research, The Decisive Network peels back layers of the Magnum mythology to offer a new history of what it meant to shoot, edit, and sell news images after World War II. Between the 1940s and 1960s, Magnum expanded the human-interest story - about the everyday life of ordinary people - to global dimensions while bringing the aesthetic of news pictures into new markets. Its best-known work started as humanita...
Architecture, Media, Populism... and Violence
The ‘Storming of the Capitol’ was, for many, the culminating media performance of the four-year presidency of Donald Trump. His presidency and its ‘final act’, bore all the hallmarks of a 21st century form of populism and media-politico spectacle that may yet come to dominate the political scene in the US, and worldwide, for years to come. The questions that such events raise are complex, varied and operative across a multitude of disciplines. This book engages with these vexed questions in the broad fields of politics and media, but does so, uniquely, through the prism of architecture. This book does not, however, limit its view to the recent events in Washington DC or the United St...
Black GI Children in Post-World War II Europe
This volume addresses an issue that was until recently taboo: children fathered by Black American GIs who were stationed in Europe during and after World War II and whose mothers were local citizens. They were born into societies that defined themselves as White and rejected this extremely visible portion of the so-called occupation children. Black and White are in this volume not (only) understood as descriptions of skin color, but above all as social constructs and political categories with racist attributions and effects. The authors of the contributions examine the manner in which these mixed-race children and their mothers were treated by their societies and the respective authorities; they assess the experiences and self-understandings of the individuals affected; they discuss their institutionalization and the strategy practiced by the youth welfare agencies of giving these children up for adoption abroad; and finally they highlight how African American couples in the USA interpreted the adoption of these mixed-race children from Europe as an act of Black resistance against White supremacy.
Rasender Stillstand oder Stunde Null?
Marion Krammer leistet in diesem Band einen zentralen Beitrag zur Erforschung der Bildkultur nach 1945 und nimmt eine längst vergessene Generation von österreichischen PressefotografInnen in den Blick. Sie zeichnet umfassend den Beruf FotojournalistIn nach und rekonstruiert das komplexe Zusammenspiel von Wettbewerb, Arbeitsund Marktsituation, das den Bildjournalismus der österreichischen Besatzungszeit auszeichnet. Die Entwicklung des Berufsfeldes Pressefotografie in der noch jungen Zweiten Republik ist dabei untrennbar an politische Ereignisse und Interessen der Besatzungsmächte gekoppelt. Erstmals werden die personellen und institutionellen Kontinuitäten zum Nationalsozialismus/Austro...
The Red Vienna Sourcebook
The current blockbuster German TV series Babylon Berlin introduces viewers to the tumultuous period in German history known as the Weimar Republic. Critics have praised the series for its relevance to the present: it shows dark populist forces undermining a fragile democracy. While Weimar Germany makes a fascinating backdrop, its story does not inspire much hope for our present-day political and cultural woes. A fascinating contrast is the Austrian capital, Vienna. After the First World War the former imperial city elected a Social Democratic majority that persisted into the 1930s. "Red Vienna" undertook large-scale experiments in public housing, hygiene, and education, while maintaining a w...
Österreichische Mediengeschichte
Der Band legt eine Mediengeschichte des Landes im Sinne einer Kultur- und Gesellschaftsgeschichte vor. Dieser sozial- und kulturhistorische Zugang geht von einer Wechselwirkung gesellschaftlicher Entwicklungen und medialer Veränderungen aus. Im Zentrum des Interesses steht daher nicht die exakte Rekonstruktion von Entwicklungslinien einzelner Mediengattungen in Österreich, sondern gerade diese Interdependenzen von gesellschaftlichen und politischen Veränderungen sowie medialen Entwicklungen und Innovationen. Im zweiten Band liegt der Schwerpunkt auf dem Zeitraum 1918 bis heute.
Lessons from Bernard Rudofsky
What we need is not a new way of building but a new way of living'so the subtitle of one of Rudofsky?'s last works. Setting out from the assumption that the design of every single room in a house is based on a physical function: one place to lie the body down to rest, another to take in food, a third to step into a tub to bath, Bernard Rudofsky (1905-88) believed architecture served to stimulate the senses and refine everyday culture. His conception of architecture and design is more topical today than ever. Internationally renowned in his day for the exhibitions he created for MoMA in the 1940s and 1950s, today he is remembered above all for his sharp-tongued, witty writings, which still speak to a broad audience. "Lessons from Bernard Rudofsky" is more than a collection of essays by experts and introduction to the complex concept of architecture and living of a cosmopolitan and unconventional thinker; the rich visual material conveys his philosophy: "I believe that sensory pleasure should take precedence over intellectual pleasure in art and architecture."
