The ethics of seeing: photography and twentieth-century German history

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Photography as an ethics of seeing / Jennifer Evans -- Thoughts on photography and the practice of history / Elizabeth Edwards -- Seeing the 'savage' and the suspension of time : photography, war and concentration camps in German southwest Africa, 1904-1908 / Claudia Siebrecht -- The "face of war" in Weimar visual culture / Annelie Ramsbrock -- Documenting Heimkehr : photography, displacement and "homecoming" in the Nazi resettlement of ethnic Germans, 1939-1940 / Elizabeth Harvey -- Visible trophies of war : German occupiers' photographic perceptions of France, 1940-44 / Julia Torrie -- Gazing at ruins : German defeat as visual experience / Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann -- Edmund Kesting's polyphonic portraits, and the abstract face of the socialist self in East Germany / Sarah E. James -- Seeing subjectivity : erotic photography and the optics of desire / Jennifer Evans -- Photographing reurbanization in West Berlin, 1977-84 / Anna Ross -- The diversification of East Germany's visual culture / Candice M. Hamelin -- The intimacy of revolution : 1989 in pictures / Paul Betts -- Hope flies, death dances : moving towards an ethics of seeing / Julia Adeney Thomas