Throughout Germany's tumultuous twentieth century, photography was an
indispensable form of documentation. Whether acting as artists,
witnesses, or reformers, both professional and amateur photographers
chronicled social worlds through successive periods of radical upheaval.
The Ethics of Seeing brings together an international group of
scholars to explore the complex relationship between the visual and the
historic in German history. Emphasizing the transformation of the visual
arena and the ways in which ordinary people made sense of world events,
these revealing case studies illustrate photography's multilayered role
as a new form of representation, a means to subjective experience, and a
fresh mode of narrating the past.