Ethics of Seeing

Jennifer Evans is Professor of Modern European History at Carleton University in Ottawa Canada.Paul Betts is Professor of Modern European History at St Antony's College, Oxford.Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann is Associate Professor for Late Modern Europe in the History Department of the University of California, Berkeley.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Photography as an Ethics of SeeingJennifer EvansChapter 1. Thoughts on Photography and the Practice of HistoryElizabeth EdwardsChapter 2. Seeing the 'Savage' and the Suspension of Time: Photography, War and Concentration Camps in South West Africa, 1904-1908Claudia SiebrechtChapter 3. The "Face of War" in Weimar Visual CultureAnnelie RamsbrockChapter 4. Documenting Heimkehr: Photography, Displacement and "Homecoming" in the Nazi Resettlement of Ethnic Germans, 1939-1940Elizabeth HarveyChapter 5. Visible Trophies of War: German Occupiers' Photographic Perceptions of France, 1940-44Julia TorrieChapter 6. Gazing at Ruins: German Defeat as Visual ExperienceStefan-Ludwig HoffmannChapter 7. Edmund Kesting's Polyphonic Portraits and the Abstract Face of the Socialist Self in East GermanySarah E. JamesChapter 8. Seeing Subjectivity: Erotic Photography and the Optics of DesireJennifer EvansChapter 9. Photographing Reurbanization in West Berlin, 1977-84Anna RossChapter 10. The Diversification of East Germany's Visual CultureCandice M. HamelinChapter 11. The Intimacy of Revolution: 1989 in PicturesPaul BettsEpilogue: Hope Flies, Death Dances: Moving Toward an Ethics of SeeingJulia Adeney ThomasIndex

"...traditionally, photographs have been treated as a kind of secondary or tertiary source with which apprentice historians should engage only after they master the `real' or `more important' meat and potatoes of the historical profession: the traditional archival document....The contributors to The Ethics of Seeing do a tremendous service by challenging this orthodoxy. The issue this volume raises, then, is not only `What can the scholarly methods of history tell us about photographs?' but also `What can photographs tell us about historical method?'" The German Quarterly