Jennifer Evans is Professor of Modern European History at Carleton University in Ottawa Canada.Paul Betts is Professor of Modern European History at St Antony's College, Oxford.Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann is Associate Professor for Late Modern Europe in the History Department of the University of California, Berkeley.

"...traditionally, photographs have been treated as a kind of secondary or tertiary source with which apprentice historians should engage only after they master the `real' or `more important' meat and potatoes of the historical profession: the traditional archival document....The contributors to The Ethics of Seeing do a tremendous service by challenging this orthodoxy. The issue this volume raises, then, is not only `What can the scholarly methods of history tell us about photographs?' but also `What can photographs tell us about historical method?'" The German Quarterly

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Photography as an Ethics of SeeingJennifer EvansChapter 1. Thoughts on Photography and the Practice of HistoryElizabeth EdwardsChapter 2. Seeing the 'Savage' and the Suspension of Time: Photography, War and Concentration Camps in South West Africa, 1904-1908Claudia SiebrechtChapter 3. The "Face of War" in Weimar Visual CultureAnnelie RamsbrockChapter 4. Documenting Heimkehr: Photography, Displacement and "Homecoming" in the Nazi Resettlement of Ethnic Germans, 1939-1940Elizabeth HarveyChapter 5. Visible Trophies of War: German Occupiers' Photographic Perceptions of France, 1940-44Julia TorrieChapter 6. Gazing at Ruins: German Defeat as Visual ExperienceStefan-Ludwig HoffmannChapter 7. Edmund Kesting's Polyphonic Portraits and the Abstract Face of the Socialist Self in East GermanySarah E. JamesChapter 8. Seeing Subjectivity: Erotic Photography and the Optics of DesireJennifer EvansChapter 9. Photographing Reurbanization in West Berlin, 1977-84Anna RossChapter 10. The Diversification of East Germany's Visual CultureCandice M. HamelinChapter 11. The Intimacy of Revolution: 1989 in PicturesPaul BettsEpilogue: Hope Flies, Death Dances: Moving Toward an Ethics of SeeingJulia Adeney ThomasIndex

Jennifer Evans is Professor of Modern European History at Carleton University in Ottawa Canada.Paul Betts is Professor of Modern European History at St Antony's College, Oxford.Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann is Associate Professor for Late Modern Europe in the History Department of the University of California, Berkeley.

"...traditionally, photographs have been treated as a kind of secondary or tertiary source with which apprentice historians should engage only after they master the `real' or `more important' meat and potatoes of the historical profession: the traditional archival document....The contributors to The Ethics of Seeing do a tremendous service by challenging this orthodoxy. The issue this volume raises, then, is not only `What can the scholarly methods of history tell us about photographs?' but also `What can photographs tell us about historical method?'" The German Quarterly

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Photography as an Ethics of SeeingJennifer EvansChapter 1. Thoughts on Photography and the Practice of HistoryElizabeth EdwardsChapter 2. Seeing the 'Savage' and the Suspension of Time: Photography, War and Concentration Camps in South West Africa, 1904-1908Claudia SiebrechtChapter 3. The "Face of War" in Weimar Visual CultureAnnelie RamsbrockChapter 4. Documenting Heimkehr: Photography, Displacement and "Homecoming" in the Nazi Resettlement of Ethnic Germans, 1939-1940Elizabeth HarveyChapter 5. Visible Trophies of War: German Occupiers' Photographic Perceptions of France, 1940-44Julia TorrieChapter 6. Gazing at Ruins: German Defeat as Visual ExperienceStefan-Ludwig HoffmannChapter 7. Edmund Kesting's Polyphonic Portraits and the Abstract Face of the Socialist Self in East GermanySarah E. JamesChapter 8. Seeing Subjectivity: Erotic Photography and the Optics of DesireJennifer EvansChapter 9. Photographing Reurbanization in West Berlin, 1977-84Anna RossChapter 10. The Diversification of East Germany's Visual CultureCandice M. HamelinChapter 11. The Intimacy of Revolution: 1989 in PicturesPaul BettsEpilogue: Hope Flies, Death Dances: Moving Toward an Ethics of SeeingJulia Adeney ThomasIndex

Jennifer Evans is Professor of Modern European History at Carleton University in Ottawa Canada.Paul Betts is Professor of Modern European History at St Antony's College, Oxford.Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann is Associate Professor for Late Modern Europe in the History Department of the University of California, Berkeley.

"...traditionally, photographs have been treated as a kind of secondary or tertiary source with which apprentice historians should engage only after they master the `real' or `more important' meat and potatoes of the historical profession: the traditional archival document....The contributors to The Ethics of Seeing do a tremendous service by challenging this orthodoxy. The issue this volume raises, then, is not only `What can the scholarly methods of history tell us about photographs?' but also `What can photographs tell us about historical method?'" The German Quarterly

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Photography as an Ethics of SeeingJennifer EvansChapter 1. Thoughts on Photography and the Practice of HistoryElizabeth EdwardsChapter 2. Seeing the 'Savage' and the Suspension of Time: Photography, War and Concentration Camps in South West Africa, 1904-1908Claudia SiebrechtChapter 3. The "Face of War" in Weimar Visual CultureAnnelie RamsbrockChapter 4. Documenting Heimkehr: Photography, Displacement and "Homecoming" in the Nazi Resettlement of Ethnic Germans, 1939-1940Elizabeth HarveyChapter 5. Visible Trophies of War: German Occupiers' Photographic Perceptions of France, 1940-44Julia TorrieChapter 6. Gazing at Ruins: German Defeat as Visual ExperienceStefan-Ludwig HoffmannChapter 7. Edmund Kesting's Polyphonic Portraits and the Abstract Face of the Socialist Self in East GermanySarah E. JamesChapter 8. Seeing Subjectivity: Erotic Photography and the Optics of DesireJennifer EvansChapter 9. Photographing Reurbanization in West Berlin, 1977-84Anna RossChapter 10. The Diversification of East Germany's Visual CultureCandice M. HamelinChapter 11. The Intimacy of Revolution: 1989 in PicturesPaul BettsEpilogue: Hope Flies, Death Dances: Moving Toward an Ethics of SeeingJulia Adeney ThomasIndex