FACES

Between 1918 and 1933, artists in the Weimar Republic reinvented photography. Though photographers to that point had generally aimed at capturing their subjects personalities, now they began to understand the face as a vehicle for their own ideas. Through the por trait, artists explored concepts as diverse as Germanys political transformation, modernist aesthetics, and emerging feminist theor y. Battling over the seemingly straightforward composition of the portrait, these artists expanded the aesthetic capacity of photogr aphy for a...[Read more]