Beyond the Battlefields: Käthe Buchler s Photographs of Germany in the Great War - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1912260077 ISBN 13 : 9781912260072

Editeur : University of Hertfordshire Press, 2018

Synopsis

Käthe Buchler (1876–1930) was a pioneering woman photographer whose exceptional photographs offer very personal insights into Germany during World War One, with a particular focus on the home front and the lives of women and children.

Born Katharina von Rhamm in Braunschweig, Germany, and from a wealthy and privileged background, she was taught painting as a girl; many of her photographs have a notably painterly quality. She went on to study photography at Berlin's Lette Academy which, unusually for the time, admitted women.

Like many women of the upper middle class, family life with her husband and children was Käthe Buchler's focus and became the central theme of her photography in the years before the First World War.

During the war itself, in the most public phase of her career, her leading role in local institutions, including the Red Cross, gave her largely unrestricted access to the city's war effort and she produced unexpectedly intimate photographs of daily life in Braunschweig, in the city's military hospitals, as well as in the revealing series 'Women in Men's Jobs'. As a result, she offers us a distinctive vision, raising the intriguing possibility of presenting the conflict from the perspective of women and children.

Surprisingly, Buchler's work remained unknown outside its immediate locality, but it was exhibited in the United Kingdom for the first time between October 2017 and May 2018, allowing the process of placing it within its proper international context to begin.

This catalogue, marking the exhibition Beyond the Battlefields, contains a wide selection of Buchler's work, including some of her exquisite Autochromes (using the world's first commercially available colour photographic process).

The accompanying essays introduce the artist and address, amongst other things, the role of amateur photography in documenting war.

In depicting the minutiae of daily life against the backdrop of war and its aftermath, Buchler's remarkable photographs speak to us across the intervening century, disrupting national stereotypes and opening up fresh perspectives on the Great War.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Matthew Shaul is an independent curator and director of contemporary gallery Departure Lounge in Luton.

Sarah Lloyd is Professor of History at the University of Hertfordshire.

Barbara Hofmann-Johnson is director of the Museum für Photographie in Braunschweig.

Nicola Gauld is co-ordinator for Voices of War and Peace: the Great War and its legacy at the University of Birmingham.

Ian Grosvenor is Professor of Urban Educational History and Director of the Voices of War and Peace Centre at the University of Birmingham.

Helen Boak is former Head of History at the University of Hertfordshire.

Pippa Oldfield is Head of Programme at Impressions Gallery in Bradford.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Hertfordshire Press
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1912260077
• ISBN 13: 9781912260072
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 72
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible