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OSTKREUZ - Agency of Photographers: Reframing East German Identity, Memory, and the Politics of Display

OSTKREUZ - Agency of Photographers: Reframing East German Identity, Memory, and the Politics of Display

Pfautsch, Anne

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ISBN10: 363192433X
ISBN13: 9783631924334
Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W
Pages: 216
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.56 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

In the wake of German reunification, photography became a vital medium through which the meanings of 'East' and 'West' were negotiated. This book examines how East German identities and photographic practices persisted and transformed after 1989 through the work of Ostkreuz - Agency of Photographers. Founded in 1990 as a collective response to the upheaval of reunification, Ostkreuz carried forward GDR traditions of freelance photography, while adapting to the Western media market. Frequently commissioned by magazines such as Stern and Das Magazin, its photographers navigated enduring stereotypes that cast the East as Other. Through close analysis of photographs, exhibitions, and institutional developments, the author traces how Ostkreuz negotiated, mirrored, and subverted such expectations, revealing how an East German photographic ethos endured as both artistic commitment and cultural commodity in post-socialist Germany.

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