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| Name | 'Against the ‘Last Man’: Folk, Face and Photography in the Third Reich' |
| Video Uploader | Video From C. P. Webster |
| Upload Date | This Video Uploaded At 08-11-2017 10:23:10 |
| Video Discription | Photography in Hitler’s Germany, like other modern inventions and ideas, was readily utilised in the promulgation of politics and ideology. The photographers I explore in this talk were acknowledged and endorsed by the National Socialist government, producing work that was poetic and romantic, focussed as it was on the idealised image of the German. These photographers created a mythic and ideologised image of the Volk - their faces, their costumes, their labour, their architecture and their landscapes. This vision rejected rootlessness, individualism, universalism, cosmopolitanism and sought to restore Tradition, a system where there was no distinction between nature and the order of human things. According to the philosopher Martin Heidegger, the ‘inner truth’ of National Socialism lay in its organicism, in its promise of a counter-propositional stance to the deleterious effects of modernity. This was precisely what these photographers were constructing, visual artefacts of the traditional in opposition to the nihilism of the modern world and the era of Nietzsche’s ‘Last Man’. This video was a presentation delivered at LENS 2017 at the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth. With thanks to the NLW. -1N7rL9ChI8 |
| Category | Education |
| Tags | Photography in the Third Reich | Third Reich | Nietzsche | The Last Man | Heidegger | völkisch | Erich Retzlaff | Hans Saebens | National Socialism | Volkskörper | Gesamtkunstwerk | Art of the Third Reich | Erna Lendvai-Dircksen | Radical Tradition | Traditionalism | German photography | Adolf Hitler | Heinrich Himmler | Ahnenerbe |
