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The First World War was the first major armed conflict to be comprehensively recorded photographically - not without reason did the 'primordial catastrophe of the 20th century' find its way into the collective memory in the form of its photographic reproduction. Using the example of photographs published during the First World War, Klaus BOCK's book 'Abschied mit einem leisen "Klick"": Die fotografische Berichterstattung über den Ersten Weltkrieg in österreichischen Illustrierten' (Farewell with a quiet "click": photographic coverage of the First World War in Austrian illustrated magazines) examines in an unusual way how the illustrated magazines of the Alpine Republic fulfilled the task of stirring up and channeling emotions with pictures: to collectivize them.
The historical section contextualizes the photographs in terms of the history of technology and photography as well as socioeconomics. In the literary section, one watches a fictional press photographer at work making the photographs discussed in the scholarly text." (© De Gruyter, 2018)
Table of Contents
- Preface
About the method
First and second image
The autotype - from grain to dot
The rotogravure process
Photography in times of the great war
The apparatus
The claim to truth of the illustrated magazine around 1914 Intermission
Third image - final scene
To the end