Faces. The Power of The Human Visage / AS GERMAN EDITION

Background information

"Based on Helmar LERSKI's outstanding photo series 'Metamorphosis - Transformations through Light' from 1935/36, this magnificent volume, 'Faces - The Power of the Face,' presents portraits from the period of the Weimar Republic. The photographs taken by the photographers of the 1920s and 1930s were able to radically renew portrait photography. While portrait photos traditionally served to portray a person's personality, the photographers of the interwar period saw the face as material that could be staged according to their own ideas. The photographed face is used to negotiate both aesthetic considerations and the political upheavals of the Weimar Republic. Modernist experimentation, the relationship between individual and type, feminist role-playing, and political ideologies collide to expand our understanding of portrait photography." (publisher's note, © Hirmer Verlag, 2020)

Content

'Faces. The Power of The Human Visage' (engl. The Power of the Face) by Walter Moser (ed.) includes works by the following photographers: Gertrud ARNDT, Marta ASTFALCK-VIETZ, Irene BAYER, Aenne BIERMANN, Erwin BLUMENFELD, Max BURCHARTZ, Suse BYK, Paul CITROEN, Carl Theodor DREYER, Andreas FEININGER, Werner David FEIST, Trude FLEISCHMANN, Jozef GLOGOWSKI, Paul Edmund HAHN, Lotte JACOBI, Grit KALLIN-FISCHER, Edmund KESTING, Rudolf KOPPITZ, Kurt KRANZ, Anneliese KRETSCHMER, Germaine KRULL, Erna LENDVAI-DIRCKSEN, Helmar LERSKI, László MOHOLY-NAGY, Lucia MOHOLY, Oskar NERLINGER, Erich RETZLAFF, Hans RICHTER, Leni RIEFENSTAHL, Franz ROH, Werner ROHDE, Ilse SALBERG, August SANDER, Franz Xaver SetzSETZERer, Robert SIODMAK, Anton STANKOWSKI, Edgar G. ULMER, UMBO, Robert WIENE, Willy ZIELKE

Photo books by and on the work of participating photographers

• ARNDT, Gertrud
  BAYER, Irene
  BIERMANN, Aenne
  BLUMENFELD, Erwin
  CITROEN, Paul
  FEININGER, Andreas
  FLEISCHMANN, Trude
  JACOBI, Lotte
  KRETSCHMER, Anneliese
  KRULL, Germaine
  LERSKI, Helmar
  MOHOLY-NAGY, László
  MOHOLY, Lucia
  RIEFENSTAHL, Leni
  ROH, Franz
  ROHDE, Werner
  SANDER, August
  STANKOWSKI, Antom
  UMBO