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Constructing Imperial Berlin - Photography and the Metropolis (Paperback)
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Constructing Imperial Berlin - Photography and the Metropolis (Paperback)
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How photography and a modernizing Berlin informed an urban
image-and one another-in the late nineteenth and early twentieth
centuries Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the city that once
visually epitomized a divided Europe has thrived in the
international spotlight as an image of reunified statehood and
urbanity. Yet research on Berlin's past has focused on the interwar
years of the Weimar Republic or the Cold War era, with much less
attention to the crucial Imperial years between 1871 and 1918.
Constructing Imperial Berlin is the first book to critically
assess, contextualize, and frame urban and architectural
photographs of that era. Berlin, as it was pronounced Germany's
capital in 1871, was fraught with questions that had previously
beset Paris and London. How was urban expansion and transformation
to be absorbed? What was the city's understanding of its comparably
short history? Given this short history, how did it embody the idea
of a capital? A key theme of this book is the close interrelation
of the city's rapid physical metamorphosis with repercussions on
promotional and critical narratives, the emergence of
groundbreaking photographic technologies, and novel forms of mass
distribution. Providing a rare analysis of this significant
formative era, Miriam Paeslack shows a city far more complex than
the common cliches as a historical and aspiring place suggest.
Imperial Berlin emerges as a modern metropolis, only half-heartedly
inhibited by urban preservationist concerns and rather more akin to
North American cities in their bold industrialization and competing
urban expansions than to European counterparts.
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