Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgements xii
5. Introduction. Photography as an Ethics of Seeing 1
6. 1. Thoughts on Photography and the Practice of History 23
7. 2. Seeing the ‘Savage’ and the Suspension of Time 37
8. 3. The ‘Face of War’ in Weimar Visual Culture 57
9. 4. Documenting Heimkehr 79
10. 5. Visible Trophies of War 108
11. 6. Gazing at Ruins 138
12. 7. Edmund Kesting’s Polyphonic Portraits, and the Abstract Face of the Socialist Self in East Germany 157
13. 8. Seeing Subjectivity 182
14. 9. Photographing Reurbanization in West Berlin, 1977–84 205
15. 10. The Diversification of East Germany’s Visual Culture 227
16. 11. The Intimacy of Revolution: 1989 in Pictures 250
17. Epilogue. Hope Flies; Death Dances 274
18. Index 287