Faces. The Power of the Human Visage

Starting with Helmar Lerski's outstanding photo series Metamorphose - Verwandlungen durch Licht from 1935/36, the magnificent volume Faces - The Power of the Human Visage presents portraits from the era of the Weimar Republic. The photographs taken by the photographers of the 1920s and 1930s achieved a radical renewal of portrait photography.
Portrait photos traditionally served to depict the personality of an individual. The photographers of the interwar years saw the face as material to be pr