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Book Synopsis
Broadening our understanding of photography’s history and its influence on modernism, this richly illustrated study—the first of its kind—reveals the remarkable extent to which British photography is a Jewish story.

Table of Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Abbreviations
  • Preface: The Prince, the Professor, the Photographer—and the Jewish Question
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Fancy, Fear, Suspicion
  • Chapter 1. Studios: Between Intimacy and Commercialism
  • Chapter 2. Elective Affinities in Photojournalism
  • Chapter 3. Photographic Practice at the Warburg Institute, 1933–1948
  • Chapter 4. The Brothers Gernsheim, Part I
  • Chapter 5. Not Harry Gresham
  • Chapter 6. Helmut Gernsheim, "Semite"
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Further Reading
  • Index

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      Publisher: University of Texas Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 17/11/2015
      ISBN13: 9781477305560, 978-1477305560
      ISBN10: 1477305564

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Broadening our understanding of photography’s history and its influence on modernism, this richly illustrated study—the first of its kind—reveals the remarkable extent to which British photography is a Jewish story.

      Table of Contents
      • List of Illustrations
      • Abbreviations
      • Preface: The Prince, the Professor, the Photographer—and the Jewish Question
      • Acknowledgments
      • Introduction: Fancy, Fear, Suspicion
      • Chapter 1. Studios: Between Intimacy and Commercialism
      • Chapter 2. Elective Affinities in Photojournalism
      • Chapter 3. Photographic Practice at the Warburg Institute, 1933–1948
      • Chapter 4. The Brothers Gernsheim, Part I
      • Chapter 5. Not Harry Gresham
      • Chapter 6. Helmut Gernsheim, "Semite"
      • Epilogue
      • Notes
      • Further Reading
      • Index

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