Institut für­ Geschichtswissenschaften der HU Berlin: Michael Wildt, Ulrich Prehn, Linda Conze und Julia Werner (Web)

Ort: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Zeit: 26.-28.10.2016
Proposals by 15.03.2016

The visibility of power has always been indispensible for dictatorships – and still is. The practices of such visualizations became particularly relevant in the twentieth century, the age of mass-media imagery. In addition to moving images, it was photography that played a pivotal role, becoming not only a mass medium, but also an everyday practice for the individual photographic actor operating below the level of dominant media representations – a grassroots area that has received much less attention from historians.

Attempts to control visualizations as representations of political and social order thus became indispensible for 20th-century dictatorships, be it Nazi Germany or the Stalinist USSR, fascist Italy or Francoist Spain, Communist China or Japan’s wartime military regime, the GDR or the military juntas of Argentina, Chile and Greece. Read more and source … (Web)