Jewish-German Culture

Douglas Crimp begins his essay by delivering a story about a librarian, Julia Van Haaftan and how she was interested in the photography organization at the Art and Architecture Division of the New York Public Library. In addition, Crimp delivers his most enlightening and meaningful point by explaining how Julia Van Haaftan is also now a “director of the Photographic Collections Documentation Project”. She discovered several lost books and photographs, which she researched, re-categorizing, and placed them under the photography or art category in the photographic collection. I found this section of the essay entertaining because it demonstrates that the history books can get lost

Hannah Höch was a pioneer in many ways. As the only female member of the Berlin Dada group, she stirred up reactions by the use of themes such as androgyny and gender roles. As one of the founders of the photomontage art style, she expressed the turmoil of Berlin’s visual culture from a female perspective. Höch primarily produced collages, often with the intention to dismantle the unequal “beer-belly” culture that, despite progressive ideas included strict social roles. A common theme in her works is androgyny, as she combined female and male bodies to create a unified character with unidentifiable gender.

Before starting this project, I knew very little about photography, photographers, or exactly how much impact photographical images have had on our society. I have never taken a photography class, or researched too in depth about specific pictures or photographers. This project has allowed me to delve deeper into the world of photography in order to understand just how much influence pictures can have over society’s beliefs, emotions, and understandings’. I have have chosen two highly influential photographers, Diane Arbus and Dorothea Lange, who I have found to both resonate with me and perfectly capture human emotions in way that moves others.

Helen Levitt, born in New York on August 31st, 1913, was an American photographer who’s particularly known for her street photography around her hometown and given the title as the most celebrated photographer of her time. Levitt made two documentary films with Janice Loeb and James Agee during her 30’s, which were In the Street (1948) and The Quiet One (1948). Her photography represents a different time periods of the New York City and a lot more about the cultures. Even after her death on March 29, 2009, her works were still shown in Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation in Paris and she was then referred as “a photographer who Froze New York Street Life on Film” by The New York Times.

Gabriele's career was influenced by the Nazi era, and even though she had limitations opposed onto her by others because she was a woman, she ignored them and continued to create still lifes, portraits, interior scenes and landscapes. Despite the fact that women weren't really seen as artists she went to school made a name for herself during a time of tragedy in her native country of Germany and she didn't let it stop

Photographs are re-collections of the past. This essay is about photography, memory, and history and addresses the relationship between photographic images and the need to remember; it is based on the notion that seeing is a prelude to historical knowledge and that understanding the past relies on the ability to imagine. At the same time, the role of thought and imagination in the production of society--as reflected in the earlier work of Louis Althusser (1970), Maurice Godelier (1984) and perhaps more significantly, Cornelis Castoriadis (1975), suggests yet another role for photography in the construction of a social and cultural reality. Photographs in capitalist societies contribute to the production of information and participate in the surveillance of the environment where their subjective and objective qualities are applied to the private uses of photographic images in the perpetuation of memory.

Jews in Germany between 1922 and 1945 For hundreds of years the Christian religion in Europe has blamed the Jews for the death of Christ. They called them ‘Christ-killers’. This is known as anti-Semitism in today’s world it means hostility towards or discrimination against Jews as a religious, ethnic or racial group. Even in England in the thirteenth century Jews were treated like individuals they were made to wear yellow stars as a symbol that they are a Jew.

Throughout pre-war Germany, many Germans began to view themselves a racially superior to others, especially Jews. Much of the anti-Semitism found in Germany stemmed from medieval times, when many Christians had disdain for the Jews because they were responsible for the crucifixion of Jesus. Even though traditional Christian anti-Semitism had long existed, a new form was growing. This new form was largely based on Social Darwinism, and saw Jews as the weak, and the Aryan race as superior. This modern anti-Semitism was only exacerbated by the formation of racial societies, one of the most notable being the Pan-German League. This uber-patriotic organization wanted to create lebensraum for the German people, and forecast that a messiah would come

What does it mean to challenge portraiture in an age of modernity, and how can typically-labelled Renaissance-style portraiture be challenged within the contemporary world? Janet Werner, an artist/painter from Montreal, QC. has done just that. Known for her exhibitions “Another Perfect Day”, “Too Much Happiness” and “Who's Sorry Now”, Werner forces us to question what the term “portraiture” truly means through a feminist art style, and how a typically generic form of artwork, in our modern world of “selfies” and mass photography, can be transformed into a powerful message of self-reflection and self-worth. We expect portraiture's to merely be a shell of someone's self, but we expect that in the physical sense, and less so in the mental and

I enjoyed reading your post. Culture is according to Zimmermann (2015), “the characteristics and knowledge of a particular group of people, defined by everything from language, religion, cuisine, social habits, music and arts”. I personally did not know too much regarding other faiths other than my own. I cannot believe that they do not allow them to associate with those from other cultures. I feel that this would be hard to not do.

Lore Krüger is a German-Jewish photographer who rose to popularity after her 250 pictures captured from 1934 to 1944 were found in a luggage she carried across the world and were later exhibited to the world. The images Lore captured throughout her journeys document day to day life during World War 2 as well as the lives of socially marginalized peoples such as the Roma and Sinti also known as gypsies. As an exile following Hitler’s rise to power, Lore travelled to most notably Spain, France, and New York photographing scenes that most resonated with her. Her exile and isolation from her native country of Germany influenced her selection of subjects by drawing her towards groups who also faced persecution as she did.

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Int the textbook, Consumer Behavior, acculturation is defined by the author as the learning of a new or foreign culture( Leon G, Schiffman & Joseph Wisenlit). The culture and values of the Hasidic Jewish people who live in Williamsburg ,Brooklyn I found to be contrary in comparison to mainstream American culture. I noticed that the men walked in a fast paced looked pale, had long beards, and were dressed identically in black hats and dark suits. the women wore wigs or scarves and restrained clothing. Otherwise, just about every woman under forty-five appeared to be pregnant. Many of the younger women looked as though they were the same age as my nineteen-year-old niece and were pushing carriages or strollers, Their stores had signs in Yiddish

The goal of this collection, which traces the prevalent patterns of representation of these women in Western art and culture, connecting the constructs to the realities facing the women, past and present, is to demonstrate how the daily life of these women in society is directly related to how they are represented . It also aims to provide a hope for, in the future, a better understanding of both the problems, but also the diversity of the women of Eastern Europe, and a change of

Set against the backdrop of World War II and its aftermath, the episode examines how photographers dealt with dramatic and tragic events like D-Day, the Holocaust and Hiroshima, and the questions their often extraordinary pictures raise about history as seen